An internet outage recorded by Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday prevented access to several major apps and websites.
Downdetector, an outage tracking site, told BBC that it has recorded more than four million reports of issues globally earlier today from users, which is more than double the 1.8 million reports the tracker records on a full weekday normally.
“At 06:56 UTC (02:56 AM EDT) users started reporting issues with AWS, in particular with the US East 1 region,” Downdetector said. “As of 09:50 AM BST (08:50 UTC), over 500 companies, across all of our 66 sites, are reporting issues.”
AWS downtime affected platforms depending on its cloud service, such as Snapchat, Zoom, Roblox, Clash Royale, My Fitness Pal, Life360, Clash of Clans, Fortnite, Canvas, Wordle, Signal, and Coinbase.
