a major outage tuesday at cloud computing giant amazon web services several amazon.com services that depend on aws including prime video were down for thousands of users an internal analysis pointed to traffic congestion across multiple network devices in the northern virginia region according to a company insider aws later posted an update that read quote many services have already recovered however we are working towards full recovery across services down detector.com showed more than 24 000 incidents of people reporting issues with amazon trading at robinhood walt disney streaming service disney plus and netflix were among the platforms that experienced disruptions according to downdetector.com amazon's ring security cameras mobile banking app chime and robot vacuum cleaner irobot all of which use amazon web services also reported issues according to their social media pages in june websites including reddit amazon cnn paypal spotify al jazeera media network and the new york times were hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to us-based content delivery network provider fastly a small arrival of aws