- Amazon’s AWS cloud service suffered an outage today
- This caused a cascade of websites to go offline or slow to crawl.
- The worst seems to be over, but many sites are still affected
If you’ve felt that the Internet is unusually slow today – or if you’ve noticed that some of your favorite websites just aren’t working – you’re not going crazy. There was a huge outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), and since a large number of websites are hosted and powered by this cloud platform, it caused havoc across the web.
Everything from Reddit and Roblox to Snapchat and Slack have been affected, not to mention all of Amazon’s services – as we noted in our live blog, around 1,000 websites are expected to experience difficulty. The damage was extensive and highlighted how much the web depends on this single point of failure.
If you’re wondering if you’ll be able to access your usual sites or don’t know why the page you visited has slowed down, you’ve come to the right place. We checked Downdetector and compiled a list of all the major websites affected by the AWS outage. Just check below to see what’s not working properly.
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Ally
- Amazon (including Alexa and Prime Video)
- Apple Music
- Asanas
- AT&T
- Availability
- Blackboard
- Blink Safety
- Boost your mobile
- Carillon
- Class Link
- Coinbase
- CollegeCounseling
- Coursera
- Dead by daylight
- Delta Airlines
- Duolingo
- Epic Games Store
- Fanduel
- Fetch
- Fortnite
- Good dad
- HubGrub
- HBO Max
- Hinge
- Hulu
- IMDb
- InstaCart
- Educate
- League of Legends
- Life 360
- Lyft
- McDonald’s app
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Teams
- My Fitness Buddy
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- New York Times
- Office 365
- Outlook
- PlayStation Network
- Pokémon Go
- Ring
- Robin Hood
- Roblox
- Roku
- Signal
- Soft
- Smart Leaf
- Snapchat
- Square
- Starbucks
- Steam
- Strava
- T-Mobile
- Tide
- Trello
- Truist
- Ubisoft Connect
- Venmo
- Verizon
- VR Chat
- Shelf
- Word
- Xbox
- Xero
- Zillow
- Zoom
This represents a large number of massive websites, indicating the scale of the problems. Overall, it was a bad day for the Internet.
Fortunately, things have started to improve, with many websites at least partially recovering from the worst of the crisis. But the issues aren’t fully resolved, so you can expect sluggish loading times and widespread inaccessibility for some time to come.
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