Amazon Web Services went down earlier today, and while a fix has been deployed, there are still huge outages felt across hundreds of internet services — chiefly Wordle as of right now.
Collectively, reports on Downdetector have reached huge heights at roughly 50,000 reports — all kicking off at 7:50am.
While the Amazon mobile app itself going down is one thing, Amazon Web Services is the crucial one here. It’s the backbone of a lot of the internet, and the likes of Snapchat, Venmo, Ring, Pokémon GO and more are also down because of it.
We’re following this outage live, getting information on what’s happened and trying to pursue detail on when a fix could be put in place. Despite the company’s best efforts, fixed deployed so far haven’t helped.
Here’s the timeline
- At around 12:11am PDT (3:11am ET, 8:11am BST), AWS started experiencing outages. And as AWS is the backbone of most of the internet, it took out hundreds of websites and services with it.
- We started seeing huge spikes in outage reports for apps like Snapchat, Venmo and Ring, Amazon services like Alexa, and games like Fornite and Pokémon GO.
- At 1:26am PDT (4:26am ET, 9:26am BST), the issue was diagnosed as a big one related to the DynamoDB endpoint of AWS — the digital phonebook of the internet.
- At 2:01am PDT (5:01am ET, 10:01am BST), the specific problem was identified and work on a fix began.
- At 2:22am PDT (5:22am ET, 10:22am BST), the fix was deployed and since then, service has been slowly but surely returning to normal.
- BUT THEN, Reddit went down, and AWS updated saying there is a backlog of issues to work through.
- At 4:48am PDT (7:48am ET, 12:48pm BST), Amazon has found a fix but is still working on issues, as Ring and Chime are experiencing outages.
- At 5:48am PDT (8:48 ET, 1:48pm BST), more fixes are being applied. But almost in an interesting game of whack-a-mole, Wordle is down, and Snapchat users are experiencing outages too. The AWS outage reports are slowly starting to creep up again.
- At 9:15am PDT (11:15 am ET, 4:15pm BST) we started seeing a huge spike in reports for Venmo, a popular payment app. This came shortly after AWS said it was still investigating the root cause and identifying mitigations. It’s still an issue and most definitely not resolved yet.
article source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/amazon-outage-october-2025
