Amazon‘s cloud subsidiary AWS has recorded a drop this morning in its area of the East Coast of the United States what has affected several hundred servicesboth owned by the company and third parties, that have stopped working correctly, or have stopped operating completely, for several hours.
The problems began early this morning, and according to comments from the AWS status page, the problem has now been solved, although the apps that use the servers affected by the outage may still take a few hours to function normally again. Among the first third-party services to return to service are those from Apple, which according to Downdetector has had problems with Apple Music, TV, Card, Pay, iCloud storage updates and School Manager.
Everything indicates that AWS’s problems have focused on its facilities in Northern Virginia, related according to the company to various DNS failures. Shortly after the beginning of the problems, problems occurred in services on the European continent, but also in the United Kingdom, which has even affected government websites, the telecommunications provider EE and Lloyds Bank.
In other countries, services such as Amazon’s own store, Epic Games, Duolingo, Zoom, Canva, Slack, various Atlassian services, Snapchat, ChatGPT or Perplexity AI have also been affected. Also games, like the popular Fortnite.
In addition, the fall of AWS is affecting purchases, both online and those made in physical stores. One of the entities affected by the fall is Redsys, which has led to all kinds of problems with dataphones when paying and collecting. In addition, it also affects online payments. ATMs of several banking entities in Spain are experiencing problems, such as those of BBVA, Unicaja, Santander or Bankinter, and failures have also been recorded in sending money through Bizum.
Although according to AWS the problem has already been resolved at source, and that some services and entities have already begun to return to normal, it is still possible that It may take some time for some services and entities to return to normal. completely, or that they operate irregularly and intermittently.
