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'Half the internet' goes down as [AWS] cloud outage disrupts major websites

2026-07-24

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dozens of popular websites crashed on Friday, possibly leaving millions of users unable to access online services.

Issues began around 6.40am ET, affecting a range of services including Apple Pay, DoorDash, Reddit and streaming platform Hulu, according to Downdetector, which monitors online outages.

The widespread disruption was blamed on connectivity problems at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which announced that the issue had been resolved shortly after 9am ET.

The failure affected multiple AWS services in its US-West-2 region in Oregon.

AWS first acknowledged the problem at 4.40am PDT (7.40am ET), although the disruption may have begun before the company posted its warning.

The outage ultimately affected seven services, including AWS Direct Connect, Global Accelerator, Internet Connectivity, IoT Core, Amazon API Gateway, Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Container Service.

AWS provides the computing power and online infrastructure used by countless websites, apps and businesses, meaning a regional failure can disrupt numerous seemingly unrelated services simultaneously.

Amazon EC2 supplies the virtual servers on which websites and apps operate, while API Gateway allows different online systems to communicate with one another.

Problems affecting AWS Internet Connectivity and Direct Connect can prevent businesses and users from reaching services hosted in the affected region, even when the websites' own systems remain operational.

An AWS spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Mail that the company had experienced connectivity problems affecting multiple services in its Oregon region, but said the issue was resolved shortly after 9am ET.

AWS expanded the number of affected services from five to seven during the outage, adding Global Accelerator, which directs users along the fastest available routes to websites, and Elastic Container Service, which runs applications across Amazon's servers.

The additions suggested that the failure was affecting multiple layers of AWS's Oregon network rather than a single product.

AWS labeled the incident 'impacted,' confirming that customers were experiencing problems, although there was no indication that data had been lost or that Amazon's entire global network had failed.

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