Internet Outage Sparked By “Operational Issues” At Amazon AWS Data Centers In Northern Virginia

A massive internet outage is being reported at the start of the new workweek. The problem appears to be originating from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides infrastructure that powers much of the modern internet.

AWS’ Service Health Dashboard shows “operational issues” in its US-East-1 region (Northern Virginia), one of its largest data centers.

What’s happening:

• Several AWS services, including DynamoDB and others, are experiencing slow performance (high latency) or failures (high error rates).

Impact:

• Apps and websites that rely on AWS may be loading slowly, timing out, or not working at all.

• Users may be unable to create or update support cases through AWS’ help system.

• Widespread slowdowns and outages are being reported across major platforms that depend on Amazon’s cloud, including Snapchat, Roblox, Amazon Alexa, Fortnite, Ring, Robinhood, Venmo, Lyft, and many others.

There’s no official statement yet on what sparked the outage at AWS’ Virginia data centers.

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