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Overview
- The incident began overnight, peaked through the morning, showed significant recovery by mid‑day, and was declared fully resolved later in the day with some systems stabilizing as backlogs cleared.
- More than 500 customer companies were affected, and outage tracker Downdetector recorded over 4 million problem reports globally.
- Popular platforms experienced interruptions, including Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Canva, Duolingo, Reddit, Lyft, Venmo, and Amazon’s own Alexa, Prime Video, and retail site.
- Financial apps such as Coinbase and Robinhood reported disruptions attributed to AWS, with Coinbase assuring customers that all funds remained safe.
- AWS said residual queues and latency were being processed after restoration and committed to a detailed incident report, prompting renewed questions about cloud concentration and resilience.