Amazon mentioned on Monday (Oct 20) its cloud providers unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting a number of standard web sites and apps the world over together with Snapchat and Robinhood.
“We are able to verify elevated error charges and latencies for a number of AWS Providers within the US-EAST-1 Area,” AWS mentioned in an replace on its standing web page.
AI startup Perplexity and cryptocurrency trade Coinbase attributed the outages to AWS.
“Perplexity is down proper now. The foundation trigger is an AWS problem. We’re engaged on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas mentioned in a submit on X.
AWS and Amazon didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Amazon.com, PrimeVideo and Alexa have been all dealing with points, in response to Downdetector. Paypal’s Venmo was additionally dealing with points.
