subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Factsheet
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Web services, cloud computing
Founded July 2002; 23 years ago (2002-07) (Web services)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Web services, cloud computing
Founded July 2002; 23 years ago (2002-07) (Web services)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
Downdetector
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AWS live status. Problems and outages for Amazon Web Services | Downdetector
7 hours ago - Real-time AWS (Amazon Web Services) status. Is AWS down or suffering an outages? Here you see what is going on.
Amazon Web Services
health.aws.amazon.com
Service health - Dec 24, 2025 | AWS Health Dashboard | Global
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
In the News
Ask HN: Is AWS down again?
Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ ยท https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws More on news.ycombinator.com
Why are the servers down and why havent the devs updated us with a twitter post or something?
Probably a Russian/Chinese cyber attack. Itโs Christmas Eve, donโt think theyโll do anything about it now. More on reddit.com
What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage
It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS More on reddit.com
DynamoDB down us-east-1
who else is on-call and just got an alert WOOOOOOOO More on reddit.com
Reddit
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Amazon Web Services (AWS): S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, VPC and more
October 27, 2025 - News, articles and tools covering Amazon Web Services (AWS), including S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, AWS-CDK, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, VPC, Cloudwatch, Glacier and more.
Videos
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AWS Went Down... It was DNS. - YouTube
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How AWS Outage Took Down Over 1000 Websites and Apps | Vantage ...
16:31
The Internet Broke AGAIN - YouTube
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Amazonโs 15-Hour AWS Outage: How One Race Condition Broke the ...
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The AWS Outage That Broke The Internet Explained in Under 10 Minutes!
Amazon
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Service health - Dec 25, 2025 | AWS Health Dashboard
October 20, 2025 - View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
Hacker News
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Ask HN: Is AWS down again? | Hacker News
October 29, 2025 - Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ ยท https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws
Livemint
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AWS Christmas outage? Netizens fume as ARC Raiders, other games stop mid-play โ โCanโt rely on servers that...โ | Today News
16 hours ago - Thousands of users worldwide reported that their favourite gaming platforms, including ARC Raiders, Steam, Fortnite and the Epic Games Store, stopped mid-play due to an alleged outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Christmas Day. Users worldwide, particularly in the United States, have reported difficulties accessing multiple online services. According to Downdetector, more than 4,000 users reported issues around 9:30 PM EST on Wednesday.
PiunikaWeb
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It wasnโt AWS: Widespread gaming outage traced to Epic Online Services (EOS) authentication failure
17 hours ago - Note: The headline of this article has been updated to reflect that the outage originated from an authentication failure within Epic Online Services (EOS), rather than Amazon Web Services (AWS) as originally suspected due to the widespread nature of the downtime.
AWS
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AWS Health Dashboard - AWS Health
You can use the AWS Health Dashboard โ Service health to view the health of all AWS services. This page shows reported service events for services across AWS Regions.
X
x.com โบ awscloud
Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) / X
August 18, 2009 - The official account for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Economic Times
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AWS down? Outage disrupts major online gaming platforms during holiday season, hereโs whatโs affected and what to do - The Economic Times
18 hours ago - A widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is severely impacting popular online gaming platforms, leaving thousands of players unable to access their games. Major titles like Fortnite, Rocket League, and ARC Raiders are experiencing login, matchmaking, and server connection issues.
Benzinga
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Amazon Web Service Says Services Not Hit By Outage As Social Media Buzzes Over Christmas Crash (UPDATED) - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) - Benzinga
18 hours ago - In a post on X, The Kobeissi Letter said "Amazon Web Services has crashed with tens of thousands of websites currently down," adding that it was the "3rd large-scale crash in Amazon Web Services this year." The tweet included a chart showing AWS outage reports spiking sharply over the prior 24 hours, underscoring the sudden and severe nature of the incident.