AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.
The outage started approx 30 minutes ago and it's affecting consumers in all regions, including the United States and Europe.
According to AWS Health page, Amazon is aware of major disruption affecting multiple services.
"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause," AWS noted.
"We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region."
While Amazon has not shared the specific cause of the outage, the status updates indicate that it is related to a DNS resolution issue for the DynamoDB API endpoint in the US-EAST-1 AWS region.
Fortnite, Perplexity, Canva and others confirm service disruption
In a post on X, Epic Games' Fornite confirmed a major service disruption. While Fornite gameplay itself is not affected, you won't be able to log-in, as the login is powered by AWS.
Perplexity also confirmed its chat app is offline due to AWS outage.
Graphic design company Canva acknowledgd service outage impacting image editing and other features.
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