Overview
- Users worldwide reported being unable to access Reddit’s website and app, with DownDetector logging more than 20,000 complaints at the peak.
- Reddit acknowledged the incident on its status page, said a fix was being implemented, and later indicated the issue had been resolved.
- Amazon Web Services experienced problems across multiple regions during the same window, with most reports tied to US-East-1 and additional issues in US-West-2 and US-West-1, according to DownDetector.
- Developers and companies reliant on AWS reported slow loading, failed connections, and other application disruptions.
- The disruption follows an October Reddit outage that drew roughly 4,800 reports, alongside a major AWS incident earlier in the month that affected several high-profile apps.