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A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affecting major websites and apps on Monday. “We can confirm significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” Amazon wrote on its health status page at 10:14 a.m. ET. Reports of an outage began around 3 a.m. ET on Downdetector and peaked an hour later. There were still more than 4,000 reports of outages at 9:42 ET when Amazon said that it was “still experiencing elevated errors.” In an update on its health status page at 10:29 AM ET, Amazon wrote: “We are seeing early signs of recovery for the connectivity issues and are continuing to investigate the root cause.” Related: Here’s Why Companies Shouldn’t Replace Entry-Level Workers With AI, According to the CEO of Amazon Web Services Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site. “User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US-East-1 region,” the website’s homepage reads. “These problems are impacting multiple services that depend on AWS infrastructure.” AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing service that helps run many major businesses including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Ring (which Amazon owns), financial services app Robinhood and even McDonald’s. Amazon publicly acknowledged there was an issue at 3:11 a.m.
