Security News > 2021 > December > AWS down again, outage impacts Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Hulu, others
Amazon AWS is experiencing an outage that has impacted numerous online services, including Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Xbox Live, Doordash, Quickbooks Online, and Hulu.
AWS engineers are working on addressing the root cause behind this outage and said they have already taken steps to restore connectivity.
"We have identified the root cause of the Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-2 Region and have taken steps to restore connectivity," the AWS status page reads.
This comes one week after another massive AWS outage affecting the US-EAST-1 Region which provides connectivity for people and companies across the northeastern part of the United States.
As AWS later explained, that incident was caused by an "Automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network" which "Resulted in a large surge of connection activity that overwhelmed the networking devices between the internal network and the main AWS network."
Update December 15, 11:27 EST: AWS says the issue behind the outage affecting US-WEST-1 and US-WEST-2 regions has been resolved.