Preliminary reports from Pingdom AB, a Swedish website monitoring company, show more than 63,000 websites are experiencing issues worldwide. At the same time, Downdetector reports users are experiencing problems with Amazon Web Services.
REPORTS INDICATE THERE MAY BE A WIDESPREAD OUTAGE AT AMAZON WEB SERVICES, WHICH MAY BE IMPACTING SERVICE- DOWNDETECTOR
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 15, 2021
Pingdom shows 63,671 websites are experiencing issues on Wednesday morning.
Downdetector shows AWS problems are being reported on the Eastern US half.
AWS Internet Connectivity (Oregon and N. California) appears to be experiencing an issue.
Downdetector shows Twitch, Doordash, Facebook, Hulu, Slack, and Netflix are experiencing issues.
The fragility of the internet has been on full display this fall. Just last month, a technical issue at Google Cloud Networking led to tens of thousands of website outages.
*This story is developing…