A widespread internet outage is causing problems with accessing Amazon and playing Fortnite.

Amazon reported elevated error rates for DynamoDB requests in the US-EAST-1 Region. Other AWS Services within US-EAST-1 are also impacted. During this period, customers might experience difficulties creating or updating support tickets. Engineers are investigating the issue and working to mitigate it and understand its root cause. Updates will be provided as more information becomes available, or by 2:00 AM.

The following apps and services are affected:

Amazon

Prime Video

Alexa

Robinhood

Coinbase

Snapchat

Perplexity AI

Venmo

Canva

Apple TV

Wordle

Fortnite

T-Mobile

Verizon

An AWS outage impacts a significant portion of the internet. AWS provides cloud computing, databases, storage, and other infrastructure to organizations and governments globally.

Consequently, disruptions to AWS can have a wide-ranging impact. Many commonly used applications and behind-the-scenes business systems are affected by the outage.

Currently, there is no estimated time for full service restoration. AWS has stated that its engineers are actively addressing the issue, but recovery may take some time due to the outage's scale. Patience is advised, as the incident highlights the internet's reliance on cloud providers.

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