Amazon’s cloud service is the most popular cloud provider globally, underpinning a large chunk of the internet. It accounts for about a third of the cloud market, meaning any outage has major ripple effects.
Coinbase and Robinhood said that the AWS issue was affecting their services and Perplexity said the disruption had impacted the stability of its website. Other sites, including game sites Roblox and Fortnite and corporate messaging service Slack also had a spike in complaints about service disruptions that might be related to AWS, according to data from Down Detector.
A representative for Amazon said the company was still investigating the outage and didn’t comment further when contacted by Bloomberg.
