AWS outage takes down Snapchat, Robinhood, Paypal, Perplexity in the US

Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said its Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage, disrupting several apps including Snapchat, Robinhood and Paypal.

Amazon.com, Prime Video and Alexa were all facing issues due to the AWS outage, according to Downdetector. (Reuters)

“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” AWS said in an update on its status page.

Perplexity and Coinbase attributed their downtime to the AWS outage.

“Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.

AWS and Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.

Amazon.com, PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues, according to Downdetector. Paypal's Venmo was also facing issues.