Amazon and all of its services are DOWN for thousands worldwide
All of Amazon Web Services go down – taking huge part of the internet with it: Alexa, Ring, Disney+, Tinder, Venmo and Prime Video all crash in Cloud server outage
Amazon’s website and app crashed after 10:30am ET on Tuesday for thousands of users worldwide Amazon Web Services is also down across the globe, along with Amazon Prime Music and Video and Alexa Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companiesAmazon officials stated they have identified ‘root cause’ of the problem and were working to fix it Outage was likely due to issues related to application programming interface (API), Amazon said, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software
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Amazon and all of its services have crashed across the globe, knocking out other popular websites like Tinder and Venmo that rely on the company’s cloud servers and affecting thousands of consumers.
The platform, Amazon Music and Prime video, Alexa, Ring and Amazon Web Services, which offers a series of services for online applications, all started experiencing problems at 10:40AM ET.
Amazon officials stated they have identified the ‘root cause’ of the problem and were working to fix it.
Amazon said the outage was likely due to issues related to application programming interface (API), which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
‘We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region,’ Amazon said in a report on its service health dashboard.
The Amazon Web Services outage is far worse than the others because it provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies around the world.
The outage has impacted a wide variety of service providers worldwide, among them Chime, CashApp, CapitalOne, GoDaddy, the Associated Press, Instacart Kindle and Roku. Some users also reported issues with Disney+, but the app appeared to be back online just before 1pm in New York.
Amazon’s website is down for at least 20,000 users in the US, but others say the app and ability to checkout carts is also not working properly – frustrating those attempting to buy Christmas gifts.
Amazon has gone down across the globe, frustrating thousands of users who are trying to purchase Christmas gifts. DownDetector , a site that monitors online outages, shows North America, parts of Europe and Asia are all experiencing issues
DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows North America, parts of Europe and Asia are all experiencing issues.
As of 12.35PM, the site showed more than 28,000 issues reported with Amazon Web Services.
According to Amazon’s status page, the outages are concentrated around the US East 1 AWS region hosted in Virginia, so not all users may be experiencing outages.
‘We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery,’ the company stated.
The crash comes just with just 18 days until Christmas, so many people are currently purchasing gifts – but they will have to wait a little longer to fulfill their holiday list.
And many consumers have flocked to Twitter to share this frustration.
Twitter user ‘The Public Archive’ tweeted: ‘ Amazon is down. The war on Christmas has begun.’
While ‘MoonChild’ is upset the platform crashed right in the middle of their Christmas shopping.
Some users are also having issues with Amazon Music, which some consumers pay $16 a month to access.
Amazon experienced a similar issue in July, when its services were disrupted for nearly two hours and at the peak of the disruption, more than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon’s online stores.
And in June, the company experienced another outage.
The Jeff Bezos-founded company was one of hundreds of websites around the world that went down on June 8 – others were CNN, The New York Times, Shopify, PayPal, Reddit, the White House and British Government.
Reports said issues were caused by a ‘service configuration’ at their server provider Fastly triggered mass outages.
The crash comes just with just 18 days until Christmas, so many people are currently purchasing gifts – but they will have to wait a little longer to fulfill their holiday list
DownDetector shows there were more than 9,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Amazon and its services
Some users are also having issues with Amazon Music, which some consumers pay $16 a month to access
Amazon experienced a similar issue in July, when its services were disrupted for nearly two hours and at the peak of the disruption, more than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon’s online stores
It’s unclear what the configuration was or whether or not Fastly intended for it to happen but it took three hours for it to be resolved, during which time government websites, media outlets and online shopping sites experienced huge problems.
Fastly is a CDN (Content Distribution Network) which services businesses by letting them use its global network of servers for their own websites.
The CDN increases internet loading speeds and it also offers cheaper bandwidth but it’s all run on one network.
If that network is compromised, like it was this morning, it can prevent those companies from operating on the net at all.
