Major internet outage hits websites, apps and Lloyds Bank after issue at Amazon Web Services

[muriel_volestrangler]

A major internet outage has hit dozens of popular websites, online games and apps.

Users have been reporting problems accessing sites such as Amazon, Roblox, Fortnite and Snapchat, for example, this morning.

The outage may be related to a glitch at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s on-demand cloud computing platform which underpins many online operations.

AWS has reported an ‘operational issue’ at its data centre in North Virginia, known as “us-east-1”.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/oct/20/china-economic-growth-gdp-low-house-prices-fall-stock-markets-ftse-business-live-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68f5ef6b8f084a54ffa357d1#block-68f5ef6b8f084a54ffa357d1

Also hit:
HM Revenue & Customs (UK equivalent of the IRS)
'Ring' doorbells/cameras
Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland (28 million customers in the UK)

BBC live: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt

Slack, Duolingo, Zoom, Coinbase, Wordle, PlayStation Network ...

[LuckyCharms]

1. Amazon and Market Watch are both down 518AM ET. n/t

[SSJVegeta]

2. OH THIS IS WHY I COULDNT BUY STUFF ON AMAZON

I thought it was cause I cancelled Prime

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Lyft and Uber also out.

Had to hail a cab the old fashioned way this morning.

Everything is so fragile in this stupid electronic world.

[irisblue]

4. Problems with reddit as well

[sir pball]

5. Strava, too.

I would have figured the company that hosts fully half of the world's busiest websites could handle the loss of a single data center, even if it is one of the biggest.

Bad look for Bezos, given that AWS is his main moneymaker.

[SocialDemocrat61]

6. Our ancestors survived plagues and famines

I can get through a morning without Alexa.

[3Hotdogs]

7. 7:29. Amazon be working here in N.J.

I can still buy shit if I want.

[markodochartaigh]

8. Not Wordle!!!

n/t

[AllyCat]

9. Can't get it to play this morning

[markodochartaigh]

11. I already did the Wordle, Pips, Connections, and Strands

just after midnight. But my results aren't showing as they normally would. It did allow me to redo Wordle just now and it is the same word.

[IronLionZion]

10. Amazon has the lion's share of the cloud computing market

it may be beneficial to diversify options with their competitors. I was just thinking the other day that Northern Virginia data centers are a tempting target for enemies who wants to harm America.

[markodochartaigh]

12. "...for enemies who want to harm America."

Ironically, Bezos saw that one coming and bent the knee to Trump.

[IronLionZion]

13. Bezos had conflicts during the first term

so he licks boots to win some sweet cloud contracts from the US government in this term. Money is honey. Plenty of billionaire tech bros did the same to win sweet contracts for AI and software and other services.