Amazon said on Monday its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world, including Snapchat and Robinhood.
"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS said in an update on its status page.
AI startup Perplexity and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase attributed the outages to AWS.
"Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it," Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.
AWS and Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.
Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa were all facing issues, according to Downdetector. Paypal's Venmo was also facing issues.
Downdetector reported over 2,000 outage incidents for AWS in the United States, with users flagging problems accessing a wide range of digital services and apps. Amazon’s own ecosystem was not spared - Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa all faced connectivity issues, the monitoring site showed.
Amazon has not yet released an official statement detailing the cause or duration of the outage.
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