An Amazon Web Services outage is causing disruptions worldwide, affecting various apps, websites, governments, universities, and companies.
The issues were reported on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, with users experiencing problems with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, and the McDonald's app, among others.
Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is "investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region."
According to the Associated Press, the problems started around 3:11 a.m. ET on Monday, with Amazon reporting "significant error rates" and engineers "actively working" on the problem.
Author's summary: Amazon Web Services outage disrupts global services.