Web customers have reported difficulties accessing fashionable web sites and apps together with Sign, Coinbase and Robinhood.
Revealed On 20 Oct 2025
Main web sites together with fashionable gaming, monetary and social media platforms have been dealing with critical connectivity points after Amazon’s cloud providers unit AWS was hit by an outage.
Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) confirmed the difficulty in an replace on its standing web page on Monday, after net customers reported difficulties accessing web sites.
“We will verify vital error charges for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint within the US-EAST-1 Area,” mentioned the AWS standing replace.
In a subsequent replace it mentioned it had “recognized a possible root trigger for [the] error charges” and was “engaged on a number of parallel paths to speed up restoration”.
Main platforms together with AI startup Perplexity, buying and selling app Robinhood, messaging app Sign and crypto trade Coinbase all mentioned their points have been as a result of AWS outage.
“Perplexity is down proper now. The basis trigger is an AWS situation. We’re engaged on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas mentioned in a put up on X.
AWS is among the big cloud computing providers suppliers, competing with Google’s and Microsoft’s cloud providers to supply on-demand computing energy, knowledge storage and different digital providers to firms and establishments.
Points with its servers can wreak havoc on the net, with so many firms counting on its infrastructure to operate.
Downdetector, a website the place net customers report outages, carried a roll name of fashionable websites the place customers had skilled entry difficulties amid the outage.
Names on the checklist included Zoom, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, Canva, Wordle and extra.
Amazon’s purchasing web site, PrimeVideo and Alexa have been additionally dealing with points, in response to the positioning.
Reuters reported that Uber rival Lyft’s app was additionally down for 1000’s of customers within the US, whereas many UK financial institution clients have been additionally reporting outages.
