Web customers have reported difficulties accessing well-liked web sites and apps together with Sign, Coinbase and Robinhood.
Printed On 20 Oct 2025
Main web sites together with well-liked gaming, monetary and social media platforms have been going through critical connectivity points after Amazon’s cloud companies unit AWS was hit by an outage.
Amazon Net Providers (AWS) confirmed the difficulty in an replace on its standing web page on Monday, after internet customers reported difficulties accessing web sites.
“We will affirm important 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 foundation trigger is an AWS concern. We’re engaged on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas mentioned in a publish on X.
AWS is without doubt one of the big cloud computing companies suppliers, competing with Google’s and Microsoft’s cloud companies to supply on-demand computing energy, knowledge storage and different digital companies to corporations and establishments.
Points with its servers can wreak havoc on the net, with so many corporations counting on its infrastructure to perform.
Downdetector, a website the place internet customers report outages, carried a roll name of well-liked websites the place customers had skilled entry difficulties amid the outage.
Names on the record included Zoom, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, Canva, Wordle and extra.
Amazon’s purchasing web site, PrimeVideo and Alexa have been additionally going through points, in keeping with the location.
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.
