{"id":133636,"date":"2025-10-20T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133636\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:46:09","slug":"many-websites-down-amid-amazon-cloud-outage-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133636\/","title":{"rendered":"Many websites down amid Amazon cloud outage \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/amazon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/amazon\">Amazon <\/a>said on Monday its cloud services unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/amazon-web-services\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/amazon-web-services\">AWS <\/a>was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world including Snapchat and Robinhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,\u201d AWS said in an update on its status page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AI start-up Perplexity and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase attributed the outages to AWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cPerplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We\u2019re working on resolving it,\u201d Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AWS and Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Amazon.com, PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues, according to Downdetector. Paypal\u2019s Venmo was also facing issues. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon said on Monday its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1463,17835,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,34020,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-133636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-amazon-web-services","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-snapchat","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}