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The outage, beginning early Monday morning, rippled through major consumer and enterprise platforms. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon reported the service was starting to recover. It wasn’t until around 6 p.m. ET that the company reported “services returned to normal operations.”

Reports on Downdetector throughout the day <a href="https://downdetector.com/">showed</a> widespread access failures on Amazon, Coinbase, Ring, Snapchat, Reddit, Slack, United Airlines, Zoom, and multiple online gaming networks, including those for Fortnite, Roblox, Pokémon Go, and Epic Games services.

On Monday evening, Amazon said it had addressed the underlying issue of the outage and was close to a resolution, but reported that some users were still experiencing lingering difficulties using services such as Venmo and Zoom.

AWS, Amazon’s $100 billion cloud division, underpins large swaths of global infrastructure, hosting everything from streaming platforms and smartphone apps to financial services and emergency systems.

AWS reported “increased error rates and latencies” beginning shortly after 3:11 a.m. ET, affecting multiple services in its US-East-1 region—a hub that powers much of the global internet.

"These problems are impacting multiple services that depend on AWS infrastructure," the company said in a statement. "We're monitoring the situation."

By 5:01 a.m. ET, AWS <a href="https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status">said</a> it had identified a “potential root cause,” tracing the disruption to a problem affecting how one of its core database systems connects and communicates. Specifically, Amazon said the issue stemmed from a breakdown in how its DynamoDB service was being reached and accessed across the network, adding that the company's engineers were pursuing “multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.”

AWS said at 5:27 a.m. ET that it was seeing "significant signs of recovery" and that most network access requests "should now be succeeding," with the company pledging further updates as restoration continues.

At 6:35 a.m. ET, AWS issued another update confirming that the “underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated,” though it cautioned that some services were still working through backlogs.

The company said requests to bring systems online in the US-East-1 region were continuing to face elevated error rates and advised customers still experiencing issues to flush DNS caches.

“We continue to work toward full resolution,” AWS said, noting lingering throttling across services such as CloudTrail and Lambda.

Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, <a href="https://x.com/CoinbaseSupport/status/1980178702748070359">told</a> users in an initial announcement at 3:46 a.m. ET that many users were currently unable to access its services due to the AWS outage.

“All funds are safe,” Coinbase said, adding that teams were working to restore functionality. In a later update at around 5:36 a.m. ET, Coinbase <a href="https://x.com/CoinbaseSupport/status/1980205716943380988">said</a> it was seeing "early signs of recovery," with some users being able to access the crypto platform's services.

Elon Musk, whose platform X remained online, weighed in on the disruption with a two-word <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980193741957894565">post</a>: “X works.”

The disruption came just days after a separate<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/youtube-resolves-issue-that-briefly-impacted-video-streaming-globally-5930297?ea_src=author_manual&ea_med=related_stories"> outage</a> impacted Alphabet-owned YouTube, which briefly prevented users worldwide from streaming videos on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music. At its peak, more than 360,000 outage reports were logged in the United States alone, according to Downdetector. While unrelated, the incidents underscore the fragility of platforms that rely heavily on centralized cloud networks.

The AWS US-East-1 region, based in Northern Virginia, has previously suffered high-profile outages, including an incident in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/">2021</a> that brought down major platforms across the internet.

In the December 2021 incident, a traffic overload inside Amazon’s own network disrupted how core services communicated with each other, leading to widespread outages. AWS later said the problem was made worse by delays in detecting the issue, prompting changes to its internal systems and monitoring tools.

With millions of businesses dependent on AWS, even short disruptions can trigger widespread operational fallout.

AWS said it continues to monitor recovery and will provide further updates.

<em>Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.</em>

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/widespread-outage-disrupts-apps-and-websites-using-aws-5932040">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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