If at this time you have noticed that “the internet is not working well”, you are not alone. The problem seems to be caused by the problems that one of Amazon’s large data centers is suffering. Its cloud infrastructure, AWS (Amazon Web Services), is what allows a multitude of platforms to function on the Internet, but if that infrastructure goes down, so do these services.
Amazon reports the fall. The website itself that monitors the status of AWS services precisely indicates how there is a “multi-service operational problem in Northern Virginia.” There they point out that multiple services are “Disrupted” and note that they have seen an “Increase in error rates and latencies in several AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region.”
Is your Alexa not working for you? Among the affected services is, for example, Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant. Some of the members of the Xataka team have noticed, for example, how their Echo was not working correctly, and this is one of the consequences of the fall.
Duolingo, Canva, Perplexity… Among those affected are those platforms, but also many others such as Roblox, the aforementioned Amazon Alexa, Amazon’s own e-commerce sites, Fortnite, The New York Times, Apple TV, McDonalds or Life360 are suffering falls. according to DownDetector. Some of those platforms, like Canva, 3 that are explicitly suffering from problems.
They are working on it. The fall was detected at 9:11 in the morning, Madrid time, and 40 minutes later this increase in errors was confirmed. Amazon indicates that they are working to mitigate the problem and understand the causes, and will provide a new update around 10:30.
In development…
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