Security News > 2021 > December > AWS outage impacts Ring, Netflix, and Amazon deliveries
Amazon AWS in the US-EAST-1 Region is suffering an outage that affected numerous online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku.
The ongoing outage started at approximately 12 PM EST and is caused by problematic network equipment affecting the US-EAST-1 AWS region, which feeds a good portion of the connectivity for people in the northeastern part of the United States.
This outage disrupted streaming through Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Roku, and continues to affect users of Ring devices who are unable to connect to their cameras.
Today's outage follows a long string of other events since 2011, including a large-scale incident that affected the US-EAST-1 Region in November 2020, bringing down a long list of high-profile sites and online services after Amazon's Kinesis service for real-time processing of streaming data experienced issues.
In September 2019, a power outage at the AWS US-EAST-1 data center in North Virginia caused data loss for Amazon customers who did not have working backups to restore their files.
In February 2017, a massive Amazon's S3 outage took down millions of small and high-profile sites and app backends, including Adobe's apps and services, Docker, Giphy, Hacker News, IFTTT, Mailchimp, Medium, Quora, Signal, Slack, Trello, Twilio, and Twitch.