Amazon Web Services Outage: Services Gradually Restored After Two-Hour Disruption

An extensive outage on Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted hundreds of websites and applications worldwide for over two hours on Monday.

The outage began shortly after 10:00 AM Greek time and affected services such as Reddit, Slack, Snapchat, and Signal. Problems were also reported with banks and airlines.

According to Amazon, the issue gradually mitigated after 12:30 PM, with most services now operating normally, although delays are noted due to accumulated requests.

AWS is a fundamental backbone of internet operations, supporting companies and services from streaming to data storage and web applications.

The DownDetector website reported that dozens of companies were affected, including Amazon, Venmo, Hulu, McDonald’s, Coinbase, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Zoom, Lloyd’s Bank, Bank of Scotland, Signal, Gov.uk, Wordle, Slack, Canva, Fortnite, Tidal, Duolingo, Microsoft 365, Pokémon Go, Strava, and WhatsApp.

According to FlightAware data, there were no significant impacts on flights.