AWS Knocks Out Apple Pay, Reddit, Hulu for 80 Minutes in Third Outage Since May

AWS knocks out Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu for about 80 minutes in the third outage since May, highlighting repeated reliability issues in Amazon’s cloud stack. On Friday morning, Amazon Web Services took Apple Pay, Reddit, Hulu, DoorDash, and PlayStation Network offline for roughly 80 minutes. The incident was centered on AWS’s US-West-2 region in Portland, Oregon, and followed two prior notable reliability problems in about eleven weeks affecting different layers: cooling hardware in May and an external network provider in June. Reports began on Downdetector around 6:40 a.m. ET, and AWS’s first acknowledgment came at 7:40 a.m. ET. By 11:14 a.m. ET, AWS said connectivity was fully restored, with no customer data lost. AWS categorized the event as “impaired,” not a full regional outage, and has not specified the precise root cause.