Between October and November, Internet Infrastructures like Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have had recent outages, causing our most used apps to be offline.
With the most recent infrastructure outage being from Cloudflare, causing the following apps and or websites below to be down. These websites range from Gaming to Finance. Cloudflare stated on their website that the outage was not caused by a cyber attack but rather a system malfunction. Now on the front of the Amazon Web Services (AWS), on Oct. 20 AWS had a major outage after a glitch. The glitch happened after two automated systems updated data simultaneously. The company later released an assessment. Once AWS went down about 30% of the services went down meaning thousands of websites were affected including a reported smart bed company. Amazon Web Services were down for at least 15 hours, the outage shows a system failure can lead to multiple outages across multiple platforms.
Apps that went down due to Cloudflare
- Spotify
- Canva
- Letterboxd
- Open AI
- Paypal
- Bet365
- Uber
- Shopify
- League Of Legends
- Politico
- Mychart
- Sage Business Management
- Downdetector
- Truth Social
Apps that went down due to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Slack
- Zoom
- Snapchat
- Signal
- Roblox
- Fortnite
- Playstation Network
- Pokémon Go
- Hulu
- HBO Max
- Apple TV
- The New York Times
- Venmo
- Coinbase
- Robinhood
- Etsy
- Amazon’s Own Website
- Prime Video
- Canva
- Microsoft Teams
- Instacart
- Trello
- Amazon Alexa
- Ring Cameras
- Ride-Sharing
- Airline Websites
- T-Mobile Services
- Verizon Services
