
It caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupted services for several popular websites and apps.
AWS Outage: Several online platforms, including Amazon’s cloud division AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat, and Perplexity AI, experienced disruptions on Monday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. The issue appeared to originate from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers a large portion of the internet’s backend infrastructure, Reuters reported. It caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupted services for several popular websites and apps, including Fortnite and Snapchat.
What did AWS say?
“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” AWS said in an update on its status page. “Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.
Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it.
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) October 20, 2025
Full list of sites, apps impacted by AWS outage
- Amazon.com
- Prime Video
- Alexa
- Robinhood
- Snapchat
- Perplexity AI
- Venmo
- Canvas by Instructure
- Crunchyroll
- Roblox
- Whatnot
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Coinbase
- Canva
- Duolingo
- Goodreads
- Ring
- The New York Times
- Life360
- Fortnite
- Apple TV
- Verizon
- Chime
- McDonald’s App
- CollegeBoard
- Wordle
- PUBG Battlegrounds
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