Consumer and financial sites and popular apps go down as Amazon's cloud unit reports global outage; some Irish services impacted

""We are seeing significant signs of recovery," the company said in its latest update."

""Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests.""

""We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery," it said in an update."

""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 identified the underlying problem and implemented a fix that is beginning to take hold, with the company reporting significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding while teams work through a backlog of queued requests. The outage concentrated on AWS US services and clients and disrupted some services in the EU, including Autodesk services used in Irish industry, although some Irish government and public sector services reportedly remained unaffected. AWS reported increased error rates and latencies and said teams were pursuing multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery. Numerous consumer apps and platforms reported interruptions and attributed problems to AWS.

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