Worldwide Disruption Paralyzes Amazon Services

"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for several AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region," stated the cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday in a status update on its website. Possible causes of the disruptions have already been identified. Initial measures to restore the services showed success, AWS explained late Monday morning Central European Time.

Amazon Disruption: PrimeVideo, Coinbase, and Venmo Affected

Affected were the Amazon services Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, and Alexa. Payment service providers Venmo from Paypal and Chime also experienced issues, as did the stock trading platform Robinhood and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The messenger Signal was also affected by the AWS disruptions, as Signal President Meredith Whittaker explained on X. The search engine Perplexity, which specializes in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), went down. "Perplexity is currently unavailable. The cause is an issue with AWS. We are working to resolve the problem," company head Aravind Srinivas stated on X. The app of the ride-sharing service Lyft was unavailable for thousands of users in the USA. Affected gaming platforms included Fortnite from Epic Games, Roblox, Clash Royale, and Clash of Clans.

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