AWS, Cloudflare down? Users report outage, Amazon denies disruption

Over a thousand users across the United States reported on Tuesday night that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down. Additionally, several users also reported that Cloudflare was facing disruptions.

“User reports indicate problems with Amazon Web Services since 8:20 PM EST,” outage tracking website Downdetector posted on X.

According to the Downdetector website, over 1,100 users in the United States reported an AWS outage on Tuesday night (local time).

However, Amazon Web Services in a statement on X denied the reports.

“AWS services are operating normally today, but an event elsewhere on the internet has prompted some inaccurate speculation on social media. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the #AWS Health Dashboard,” it said, replying to Downdetector’s post.

The latest AWS down report comes a day after users across the world had flagged similar issues. In January, too, users had reported similar problems on the platform, with Amazon denying the AWS outage.

That time, reports of problems peaked around 7 am IST, as more than 4,300 users in the US flagged issues with AWS.

In October last year, a massive AWS outage had affected popular platforms including Amazon Prime Video, Perplexity AI and Snapchat. Other services such as Roblox, McDonald’s, Coinbase, Canva and Goodreads also faced issues, leading to a massive social media chatter.

Is Cloudflare down?

A few hundred users also reported a Cloudflare down update, with Downdetector tracking the disruption.

“User reports indicate problems with Cloudflare since 8:28 PM EST. How is it affecting you?” Downdetector posted.

Around 405 users in the US said they were facing issues with Cloudflare. Most of them were related to DNS, server connection and API.

Cloudflare has not issued an official statement regarding the matter.

“Uh, I hate to break this to you, but Cloudflare IS in fact having problems tonight. It’s made me verify TWICE on Twitter in as many hours,” a user said on Downdetector.

“Currently very low bandwith through cloudflare & warp. Dashboard is not fully loading,” another added.

In December last year, a glitch in content delivery service firm Cloudflare due to the roll-out of a system update disrupted operations of several online platforms worldwide and in India.

Platforms like Zerodha and Groww and graphic designing tool Canva got disrupted as a resut of the Cloudflare outage.

That was the third major disruption for Cloudflare users in India within a period of six months between July and December.

Cloudflare said the disruption on its network was not due to any cyber attack but due to the implementation of an update.

“A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare’s network at approximately 8:47 GMT and concluded approximately 9:13 GMT. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components,” the company said.