A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has disrupted a wide range of websites and digital platforms worldwide, causing widespread slowdowns and connectivity issues across multiple regions and industries.
The disruption, which began early Monday, originated from AWS’s US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) data center — one of the company’s most critical cloud regions. This region hosts a significant portion of global cloud infrastructure, and the incident quickly cascaded, affecting both enterprise systems and consumer applications.
According to reports from The Guardian and Reuters, leading platforms such as Snapchat, Fortnite, Signal, Perplexity AI, and Amazon Alexa experienced partial or total downtime during the event. AWS has confirmed elevated error rates and service interruptions across several of its core offerings, including compute, storage, and content delivery services.
“We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and are seeing signs of recovery across multiple services,” AWS said in an official status update. “Our teams are implementing multiple mitigation paths and monitoring progress closely.”
While AWS reports “significant improvement,” residual latency and service errors continue to affect users globally. Businesses relying heavily on AWS infrastructure — from startups to multinational corporations — are being urged to monitor system performance and prepare contingency plans where possible.
Impact on Businesses
Organizations hosting their websites or applications on AWS are experiencing intermittent outages, slowed performance, and in some cases, complete downtime. The incident highlights the growing dependence of the global digital economy on centralized cloud service providers.
Cyber analysts note that while cloud computing has improved scalability and reliability, it also introduces systemic risks when a major provider experiences failures.
Next Steps
AWS has stated that it will provide a full post-incident analysis once service stability is fully restored. Technical teams across affected industries are monitoring updates via the AWS Health Dashboard and implementing regional failovers to minimize user disruption.
For now, services are gradually returning to normal, but users may continue to experience intermittent connectivity issues as systems recover.
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