It is understood that many of the outages link to issues at Amazon Web Services, which offers the infrastructure that underpins much of the internet.<\/p>\n
Many of the world\u2019s biggest websites and apps, including Perplexity, Canva, Signal, Amazon, Roblox, Coinbase and Atlassian, began experiencing issues at around 8am this morning (20 October).<\/p>\n
Downdetector<\/a>, the popular crowdsourced disruptions reporting platform, has recorded a spike in user reports for nearly 50 websites over the last few hours.<\/p>\n It is understood that the outages link to issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers the infrastructure that underpins much of these\u00a0 internet sites.<\/p>\n At 11.35am, AWS reported a return of many services. \u201cThe underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now.<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to work toward full resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n AWS\u2019 health dashboard<\/a> confirmed \u201csignificant error rates\u201d earlier this morning, finding that the issues appear to be related to \u201cDNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis issue also affects other AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,\u201d it said, as well as global services or features that rely on its US-EAST-1 endpoints.<\/p>\n \u201cPerplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We\u2019re working on resolving it,\u201d said the AI search engine start-up\u2019s CEO Aravind Srinivas, in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage,\u201d posted<\/a> Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal Foundation.<\/p>\n The BBC reports that several banks<\/a> have been affected, with customers facing issues including card payments being declined.<\/p>\n 75 AWS and Amazon services have also been affected by the outage, from AWS Systems Manager and Network Firewall to the Support Centre. \u201cDuring this time, customers may be unable to create of update support cases,\u201d one of the updates read.<\/p>\n