An AWS outage impacted your favorite websites. It’s now been resolved. – USA Today

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, said its services are back to operating as usual after an outage caused widespread issues across the internet on Oct. 20. AWS said the outage, which began around 3 a.m. ET on Oct. 20, was rooted in a series of issues in its US-EAST-1 Region, a cluster of data centers based in Northern Virginia. AWS said it fixed the initial problem by 6 a.m. ET. However, a ripple effect of other issues caused service disruptions throughout the day. All services returned to normal by 6 p.m. ET, AWS said. According to Downdetector, an outage-tracking website, large platforms including Amazon, Snapchat, Ring, Fortnite and more faced issues during the outage. More than three million users in the United States reported problems, Downdetector said. Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement to USA TODAY that the incident is a reminder of the world’s dependency on a handful of cloud service providers, including AWS. “When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold,” Chapple said. Is AWS still down? As of 6 p.m. ET on Oct. 20, AWS said all its services “returned to normal
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