AWS Outage is Disrupting Many Online Services Today

An AWS outage has been disrupting a long list of Internet services today, and it has yet to be fully resolved. Amazon started investigating “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services” in its Northern Virginia data center this morning, and the company is still working on a fix as of this writing.

“We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services. The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers. We are throttling requests for new EC2 instance launches to aid recovery and actively working on mitigations,” Amazon wrote on its latest update published at 8:43 AM PDT.

The AWS outage impacted Fortnite, Rocket League, Fall Guys, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services earlier today, but Epic Games says that the issue has now been fully resolved. The popular gaming platform was also affected earlier today, but things should now be back to normal.

Other high-profile services that are still impacted include Slack, ChatGPT, Zoom, Perplexity, Canva, and Snapchat. Unfortunately, AWS is such an important piece of the Internet today that it’s almost impossible to list every impacted service.

You can keep track of Amazon’s efforts to fix the outage on the company’s AWS Health Dashboard. 83 services are still being disrupted by the outage, and even Amazon’s consumer services like Alexa and Prime Video have been affected earlier today.