AWS outage disrupts Amazon, Coinbase and major US sites
An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted Amazon, Coinbase, Robinhood and multiple shopping, gaming and streaming services that use AWS for core infrastructure.
The outage reports were concentrated in US‑East‑1 (77%), with smaller shares in US‑West‑1 (13%) and US‑West‑2 (10%). On Amazon, users reported mobile app failures (53% of complaints), home page errors (26%) and shopping cart problems (22%).
Several major services flagged issues linked to the AWS disruption. Coinbase, Robinhood and AI search engine Perplexity reported degraded service. Online games such as Roblox and Fortnite and the messaging platform Slack all registered spikes in user complaints. Amazon devices and services including Alexa and Ring also saw increased error reports.
Several major services flagged issues linked to the AWS disruption. Coinbase, Robinhood and AI search engine Perplexity reported degraded service. Online games such as Roblox and Fortnite and the messaging platform Slack all registered spikes in user complaints. Amazon devices and services including Alexa and Ring also saw increased error reports.
Social media users and platform comment pages captured a range of specific impacts: some students could not access Canvas, drivers reported trouble signing into Amazon Relay, and users noted potential delays in package delivery updates. Questions also circulated about Amazon Flex availability.
Amazon engineers reported increased error rates and latencies in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, noting teams were working on ‘multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.’ The company said it was investigating the cause and working to restore full service.
AWS provides storage and compute services such as Amazon S3 and EC2 and holds roughly one-third of the global cloud market. Companies that rely on AWS warned customers that features like package tracking and smart‑home controls could remain affected until systems return to normal.
Amazon engineers reported increased error rates and latencies in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, noting teams were working on ‘multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.’ The company said it was investigating the cause and working to restore full service.
AWS provides storage and compute services such as Amazon S3 and EC2 and holds roughly one-third of the global cloud market. Companies that rely on AWS warned customers that features like package tracking and smart‑home controls could remain affected until systems return to normal.
Some affected companies, including Amazon, are increasingly using AI-assisted coding and code generation to build their products. While this accelerates development, it can also introduce subtle bugs if controls are weak, and it may contribute to service disruptions during large-scale cloud outages.
To the severity of the issues in future events, teams can design for regional isolation: host stateless services across at least two AWS regions, keep data stores with cross-region replicas, and externalize critical dependencies (auth, DNS, queues).
To the severity of the issues in future events, teams can design for regional isolation: host stateless services across at least two AWS regions, keep data stores with cross-region replicas, and externalize critical dependencies (auth, DNS, queues).
