Amazon Web Services hit with another outage, many services now restored

A power outage at an Amazon data centre in Northern Virginia caused a widespread outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The outage affected several customers, including Slack, Epic Games, EA, Imgur and Trello.

Users began reporting problems with AWS on Downdetector at around 8 a.m ET. Other services also saw a spike in error reports at the same time.

AWS outage reports on Downdetector.ca.
AWS outage reports on Downdetector.ca. Source: Downdetector.

On the AWS status page, Amazon noted that the power outage increased launch failures and networking connectivity issues in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. Other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region were not affected by this issue.

Although Amazon restored most services in about two hours, some issues still remain as of 1:30 p.m. ET. AWS recommends that customers relaunch affected EC2 instances within the Availability Zone to restore services.

But AWS’s problems aren’t over. Around 12:30 p.m. ET, new issues with AWS Single Signon have emerged, also at the North Virginia site.

This outage marks the third one for AWS this month. The biggest one occurred on Dec. 7 when an error in the AWS API crippled Amazon’s services, Disney+, Tinder and various other services hosted on AWS. That outage lasted almost 10 hours.

Update:

[3:10 p.m.] AWS is now experiencing increased error rates for customers using Directory Services AD connector or Managed AD with Amazon SSO in the US-East-1 region. Amazon has identified the cause to be related to Directory Services. Resolution efforts are ongoing.

 

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