Just minutes ago. Amazon’s Cloud Service went down.
Amazon’s cloud-service network was hit was another outage Wednesday, the company said, disrupting access to several popular sites.
Several websites began reporting issues with Amazon Web Services just after 7:30 a.m. ET.
The company’s web services network, which provides remote computing services to many companies, governments and universities, reported “increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region.”
AWS outage is causing problems for Coinbase, Slack, and other services.
Amazon confirmed a “loss of power” at one of its data centers and said it was working to mitigate the issue.
DownDetector also showed spikes in user problem reports around the same time on messenger service Slack, trading platform Coinbase, and game shopfront site Epic Games Store.
AWS hosts large parts of the internet, meaning when it experiences problems the ripple effects spread out to lots of different services.
This is a developing story.
Can’t access my Coinbase $$$$$$. My VPN doesn’t work. OUCH!!!!!!
UPDATE: Amazon Statement
A post on Amazon Web Services status page confirmed the problem was due to a power outage at one of its data centers in Northern Virginia. By 8:40 a.m. ET, the company announced in an update it had restored power to the affected data center within the impacted Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region, however several users were still experiencing reporting issues.