A significant outage in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 Region is reportedly causing widespread disruptions across the internet. Major platforms including Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Slack are experiencing issues, with sources indicating problems are affecting online banking services as well. Analysts suggest the incident highlights the internet’s reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure.
Widespread Internet Disruption Linked to AWS Outage
A major Amazon Web Services outage is reportedly causing significant disruptions across numerous popular online platforms, social media networks, and video game services. According to reports, the issues began with “significant error rates” for requests made to Amazon’s DynamoDB data storage service in the US-EAST-1 Region, which is hosted in northern Virginia. The problem has since cascaded to affect other AWS services in the same region, creating a domino effect across the digital ecosystem.