Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services is experiencing a major outage that has disrupted several websites, apps and online games.
“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” the company posted on the AWS health dashboard.
“Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause,” it updated.
User complaints began spiking around 2:30 am EST, according to Downdetector, which tracks complaints about websites and online services. Thousands of users have registered complaints at the time of writing.
Impacted apps include Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Snapchat (SNAP), Robinhood (HOOD), Lyft (LYFT), Venmo, Disney+ (DIS), and McDonald’s (MCD). Games such as Roblox (RBLX) and Fortnite have also been hit.