Amazon servers are DOWN: Outage takes out dozens of websites for users worldwide

Amazon Web Services has been hit with a worldwide outage, impacting dozens of websites that use the company's cloud hosting service. DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows hundreds of thousands of issue reports from around the globe. Amazon Web Services began experiencing problems around 2:56 pm ET, taking out other websites like IMDB, McDonald's and OkCupid. The e-commerce giant's purchasing platform, music and virtual assistant Alexa are also experiencing problems. Amazon Web Services has been hit with a worldwide outage impacting hundreds of websites that use the company's cloud-hosting service Reports first indicated Amazon Web Services (AWS) was experiencing issues, but other websites began to follow one by one.