{"id":135092,"date":"2025-10-21T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:51:07","slug":"is-venmo-down-banking-issues-reported-by-thousands-amid-aws-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135092\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Venmo down? Banking issues reported by thousands amid AWS outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/86798086007-20251020-t-081820-z-1637449743-rc-2-j-7-hatv-9-us-rtrmadp-3-amazonoutagesaws.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services outage downs Snapchat, Fortnite and more<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon Web Services outage has downed leading websites and apps, including Snapchat, Roblox and Lyft.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Venmo users reported issues using the banking platform hours after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2025\/10\/20\/aws-website-outages-issues-down\/86797267007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">widespread Amazon Web Services outage<\/a>\u00a0impacted numerous websites on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>According to outage tracker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/chime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Downdetector<\/a>, nearly 6,000 Venmo users said they were experiencing problems as of 1:03 p.m. ET. The issues were believed to be related to the AWS outage, per Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>The outage appears to have peaked around 11 a.m. ET, with over 8,000 users reporting outages at that time, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2025\/02\/05\/amazon-cloud-business-microsoft-google\/78251809007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, a cloud computing service run by Amazon,\u00a0said it experienced a significant outage early on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:35 a.m. ET, AWS said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">statement<\/a> that the issue has been mostly resolved and it would &#8220;continue to work toward full resolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outage began around 3 a.m. ET on Oct. 20 and was rooted in its US-EAST-1\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/global-infrastructure\/regions_az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Region<\/a>, which is based in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/global-infrastructure\/latest\/regions\/aws-regions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Northern Virginia<\/a>, according to AWS.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud computing service said it believes the outage was caused by an underlying issue with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/route53\/what-is-dns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">DNS<\/a>, or domain name systems, which helps translate website names into IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Venmo was among the websites that experienced significant spikes in outage reports during the AWS outage, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabeHauari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@GabeHauari<\/a>\u00a0or email him at Gdhauari@gannett.com.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services outage downs Snapchat, Fortnite and more An Amazon Web Services outage has downed leading websites&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[21573,829,8139,80642,6390,22156,2006,4621,18,846,19,1297,17,279,1216,1231,714,1218,1232,5,76674,713,731,13960,80641,827,22151,1217,82,455,835,4588],"class_list":{"0":"post-135092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-amazon-com","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-banking","11":"tag-banking-and-financial-services","12":"tag-cloud","13":"tag-cloud-storage","14":"tag-company","15":"tag-company-news","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-financial","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-inc","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-mobile","22":"tag-modular","23":"tag-modular-story","24":"tag-negative","25":"tag-network","26":"tag-network-trending","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-outages","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-negative","31":"tag-service","32":"tag-service-outages","33":"tag-services","34":"tag-storage","35":"tag-story","36":"tag-technology","37":"tag-technology-news","38":"tag-trending","39":"tag-venmo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092","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=135092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}