Facebook, Amazon, Venmo Down As AWS Outage Hits Thousands
Earlier in the day Merrill was down, then Vanguard and Robinhood, and now a slew of even more widely used websites are suffering widespread outages….
The central factor driving the outages appears to be Amazon Web Services:
But AWS now says it identified the root cause of the earlier outage and is actively working towards recovery:
8:22 AM PST We are investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.
8:26 AM PST We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery. This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1. Customers may be able to access region-specific consoles going to https://console.aws.amazon.com/. So, to access the US-WEST-2 console, try https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/
Developing…
Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/07/2021 – 11:56
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