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AWS US-EAST-1 outage disrupts millions of websites and services

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AWS suffered a major service disruption that took down millions of websites and services, affecting users across the United States and Europe. The outage hit US-EAST-1 and spread to major dependent services including Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity AI, and Canva. AWS said it was seeing increased error rates and latencies and was working to mitigate the issue and determine the root cause. The disruption also affected AWS Support Center case creation and the Support API.

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  1. 20.10.2025 11:24 2 articles · 7mo ago

    Initial report: AWS US-EAST-1 outage disrupts millions of websites and services

    Initial Disclosure

    The outage began about **30 minutes** before publication, with AWS reporting elevated errors and latency in **US-EAST-1**. Early impact already reached consumer services and AWS support workflows.

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