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AWS us-east-1 Incident Disrupts Major Online Services Worldwide

The cloud provider reports ongoing mitigation alongside a root‑cause probe.

Overview

  • Amazon Web Services acknowledged errors affecting multiple services in its USA‑EAST‑1 region and said investigation and mitigation are underway.
  • Outage trackers showed spikes for platforms including Canva, Roblox, Perplexity, Snapchat, Signal, Zoom, Prime Video, Ring, Fortnite, Airbnb, and Alexa.
  • Reports arrived from the United States and Italy, indicating an international impact documented by DownDetector.
  • Several services began to recover after a few hours, yet users continued to encounter access problems and latency.
  • Some reports cited DynamoDB as a potential upstream factor, which remains unconfirmed by AWS.