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Amazon says its services are recovering again after connectivity issues persisted Monday. But reports of problems with Amazon’s cloud computing services unit AWS continue.
Before the latest round of issues, Amazon said it “fully mitigated” an earlier outage. Several popular websites and apps — including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite — were impacted. Banks and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and AI firm Perplexity also reported issues, as did US airlines Delta and United.
Here’s a snapshot of AWS’ reach by the numbers:
Accounted for 37% of the global cloud market share in 2024 according to market research firm Gartner
Generated $107.6 billion in revenue in 2024
Runs on 6 million+ kilometers of fiber optic cabling
Available in 38 geographic regions
Notable customers include Disney, the US Army, Capital One, United Airlines, NFL
One expert said the financial impact of today’s disruption could total hundreds of billions of dollars.
AND Amazon stock rose 1.31% (as of this moment), thus beating the market.
Was this externally caused (Russia "Gray" war?) or just human failure? Will we ever know?
If someone were to his Amazon, Microsoft and Google all at once, what would the results be?
Jeff
(Reminded of the "Flash Crash" of May 6, 2010 when a $4.1 billion trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) resulted in a loss to the Dow Jones Industrial Average of over 1,000 points and then a rise to approximately the previous value, all over about fifteen minutes. My personal theory is that all financial trades were shunted by the Telcos to a government office whose main switch died - and the flash took place as the total of all buying dropped to zero while the backup switch booted and synched to carry the traffic. But I seem to be thee only one who floated that idea).
