AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.
The outage started approx 30 minutes ago and it’s affecting consumers in all regions, including the United States and Europe.
According to AWS Health page, Amazon is aware of major disruption affecting multiple services.
“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause,” AWS noted.
“We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”
Fortnite, Perplexity, Canva and others confirm service disruption
In a post on X, Epic Games’ Fornite confirmed a major service disruption. While Fornite gameplay itself is not affected, you won’t be able to log-in, as the login is powered by AWS.
Perplexity also confirmed its chat app is offline due to AWS outage.
Graphic design company Canva acknowledgd service outage impacting image editing and other features.
“We are currently experiencing significantly increased error rates which are impacting functionality on Canva. Our team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore full access as quickly as possible,” Canva noted on its status page.
According to Downdetector, 15 major services, including enertainment platforms like Roblox and Hulu, are offline due to AWS issues.
List of major services affected by AWS outage:
- Amazon
- PrimeVideo
- Fortnite
- Clash of Clans
- Clash of Royals
- Palworld
- Snapchat
- Perplexity
- Canva
- Roblox
- Hulu
- Robinhood
This is a developing story…
Update 1: Some services are now recovering after 45 minutes of outage
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