Amazon outage: Every website knocked offline by the huge AWS outage

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A bad day for the internet

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  • Amazon’s AWS cloud service suffered an outage today
  • That caused a cascade of websites to go offline or slow to a crawl
  • The worst appears to be over, but many sites are still affected

If you’ve felt that the internet is unusually sluggish today – or noticed that some of your favorite websites just plain aren’t working – you’re not going mad. There’s been a huge outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), and since huge numbers of websites are hosted and powered by this cloud platform, it’s caused havoc around the web.

Everything from Reddit and Roblox to Snapchat and Slack have been affected, not to mention all of Amazon’s own services – as we noted in our live blog, around 1,000 websites are expected to experience some sort of difficulty. The damage has been extensive and has highlighted how much of the web is reliant on this one point of failure.

If you’ve been wondering whether you’ll be able to access your regular sites or aren’t sure why that page you’ve visited has slowed to a crawl, you’re in the right place. We’ve been checking Downdetector and have put together a list of all the major websites impacted by the AWS outage. Just check below to see what’s not working properly.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Ally
  • Amazon (including Alexa and Prime Video)
  • Apple Music
  • Asana
  • AT&T
  • Availity
  • Blackboard
  • Blink Security
  • Boost Mobile
  • Chime
  • Classlink
  • Coinbase
  • CollegeBoard
  • Coursera
  • Dead By Daylight
  • Delta Air Lines
  • Duolingo
  • Epic Games Store
  • Fanduel
  • Fetch
  • Fortnite
  • GoDaddy
  • GrubHub
  • HBO Max
  • Hinge
  • Hulu
  • IMDb
  • InstaCart
  • Instructure
  • League of Legends
  • Life 360
  • Lyft
  • McDonalds app
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Teams
  • My Fitness Pal
  • Navy Federal Credit Union
  • New York Times
  • Office 365
  • Outlook
  • Pinterest
  • PlayStation Network
  • Pokémon Go
  • Reddit
  • Ring
  • Robinhood
  • Roblox
  • Roku
  • Signal
  • Slack
  • Smartsheet
  • Snapchat
  • Square
  • Starbucks
  • Steam
  • Strava
  • T-Mobile
  • Tidal
  • Trello
  • Truist
  • Ubisoft Connect
  • Venmo
  • Verizon
  • VR Chat
  • Whatnot
  • Wordle
  • Xbox
  • Xero
  • Zillow
  • Zoom

That’s a lot of massive websites, indicating how widespread the problems are. All in all, it’s been a bad day for the internet.

Fortunately, things have started to improve, with many websites recovering at least partially from the worst of the crisis. But the issues have not passed entirely, so you can expect lethargic load times and extensive inaccessibility for some time to come.

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Alex Blake
Alex Blake
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Alex Blake has been fooling around with computers since the early 1990s, and since that time he's learned a thing or two about tech. No more than two things, though. That's all his brain can hold. As well as TechRadar, Alex writes for iMore, Digital Trends and Creative Bloq, among others. He was previously commissioning editor at MacFormat magazine. That means he mostly covers the world of Apple and its latest products, but also Windows, computer peripherals, mobile apps, and much more beyond. When not writing, you can find him hiking the English countryside and gaming on his PC.

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