AWS went down, taking parts of the Internet with it — what we know

Close up of AWS sign at their offices in SOMA district — (Image credit: Sundry Photography | Shutterstock)

While many people think of Amazon as a great place to score some deals, it also owns Amazon Web Services. This server system hosts a significant portion of the digital world, from Amazon Alexa devices to fast food apps and more.

Unfortunately, that means when AWS goes down lots of services suffer. And that's exactly what happened today (June 7) when, according to several outlets and Down Detector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, AWS was hit with a major outage. The Verge reported that the issue appears to be tied to an issue with US-EAST-1 region that started at around 3 p.m. ET.

What services powered by AWS went down

As of writing, here are all the services that were down or experiencing some problems according to Down Detector. It appears Microsoft Azure also experienced some issues, which may be related.

Amazon Web Services
McDonald's app
Amazon
Southwest
Amazon Alexa
Pluto TV
Ally
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige
Microsoft 365
Destiny
FIFA
Instagram
IMDb
VRChat
Nike Plus
Delta Air Lines
TikTok
Fortnite
Hinge
Overwatch 2

The official AWS Service Health Dashboard offers up-to-date intel on what's happening, and throughout the outage it gave updates. Shortly after 6 PM ET Tuesday (June 7) it reported that all issues had been resolved.

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