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Reddit Restores Service After Global Outage as AWS Reports Regional Disruptions

Reddit reported a fix after outage reports surged past 20,000 on tracking sites.

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.