Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites.
AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple services” and said it was “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery,” in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT. Over 70 of its own services were affected.
Shortly afterward, AWS said it was seeing “significant signs of recovery.”
By 3:35 a.m PDT, the issue had been “fully mitigated,” AWS said in an update, adding that most AWS Service operations “are succeeding normally now.”
“Some requests may be throttled while we work toward full resolution,” it said, noting some services were continuing to work through a backlog.
The website Downdetector said that user reports indicated problems at sites including Amazon, Disney+, Lyft, the McDonald’s app, the New York Times, Reddit, Ring, Robinhood,Snapchat, T-Mobile, United Airlines, Venmo and Verizon.
A Government spokesperson told CNBC: “We are aware of an incident affecting Amazon Web Services, and several online services which rely on their infrastructure. Through our established incident response arrangements, we are in contact with the company, who are working to restore services as quickly as possible.”
Lloyds Banking Group confirmed some of its services were affected and asked customers “to bear with us” while it works to bring them back online. Some 20 minutes later, it added that services were coming back online.
