Amazon’s internet infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers many websites and apps, experienced a prolonged outage on Wednesday 25th November 2020. The outage affected a large portion of the internet because it powers a large portion of it.
As of 10:18 AM on Thursday 26th November 2020, Amazon says service is, near full restoration. An update on the AWS Service Health Dashboard reads, “We have restored all traffic to Kinesis Data Streams via all endpoints and it is now operating normally.”
It further said; “We have also resolved the error rates invoking CloudWatch APIs. We continue to work towards full recovery for IoT SiteWise and details of the service status is below. All other services are operating normally. We have identified the root cause of the Kinesis Data Streams event, and have completed immediate actions to prevent recurrence”.
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Many apps, services, and websites took to Twitter to reveal how the AWS outage affected them. They include; 1Password, Acorns, Adobe Spark, Anchor, Autodesk, Capital Gazette, Coinbase, DataCamp, Getaround, Glassdoor, Flickr, iRobot, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pocket, RadioLab, Roku, RSS Podcasting, Tampa Bay Times, Vonage, The Washington Post, and WNYC.
Coinbase, a secure platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more also tweeted:
We’re currently experiencing elevated error rates on some backend systems due to an AWS service outage. Trading isn’t impacted at this time, but you may experience intermittent delays when filing a support case or accessing other parts of our applications. https://t.co/rR0A4wPKs4
— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) November 25, 2020
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