Services including Apple Music were among the hundreds of websites and apps ranging from Reddit and Disney+ to banking services and Duolingo, that were offline because of an outage at Amazon Web Services.
AWS powers a startling proportion of the internet
AWS powers a startling proportion of the internet
This isn’t the first time Amazon Web Services (AWS) has gone down, but it is another example of how dependent the entire internet is on this one service. As of 5:30 A.M. Eastern, Amazon says on its status page that sites should be returning to normal, but it isn’t clear how long it will take before all apps and sites are back.
Apple’s status page, however, claims that all problems have been resolved. It specifically says that Apple School Manager and iCloud Storage Upgrades had problems during this time.