Amazon Server Crash Sparks Internet Outages Across IL, Nation

ILLINOIS — Amazon web services was back online Wednesday after going down across much of the country Tuesday morning. The outage plagued not just the online retailer but dozens of other services that use Amazon's backend, including Disney Plus, Ring security cameras, Roku, Cash App, Venmo, Tinder, Instacart, Ticketmaster and various online video games, according to the Associated Press, which was also affected.

"We have identified the root cause and are actively working towards recovery," Amazon posted on its service health dashboard Tuesday morning.

"The root cause of this issue is an impairment of several network devices in the US-EAST-1 Region," Amazon explained subsequently. "We are pursuing multiple mitigation paths in parallel, and have seen some signs of recovery, but we do not have an ETA for full recovery at this time."

Amazon said the issue was resolved just after 6:30 p.m. CST, but did not explain what caused the issue.

"With the network device issues resolved, we are now working towards recovery of any impaired services," the company said. "We will provide additional updates for impaired services within the appropriate entry in the Service Health Dashboard."

Among the companies that use Amazon Web Services are:

Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Baidu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Disney, Docker, Dow Jones, European Space Agency, ESPN, Expedia, Financial Times, FINRA, General Electric, GoSquared, Guardian News & Media, Harvard Medical School, Hearst Corporation, Hitachi, HTC, IMDb, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, International Civil Aviation Organization, ITV, iZettle, Johnson & Johnson, JustGiving, JWT, Kaplan, Kellogg's, Lamborghini, Lonely Planet, Lyft, Made.com, McDonalds, NASA, NASDAQ OMX, National Rail Enquiries, National Trust, Netflix, News International, News UK, Nokia, Nordstrom, Novartis, Pfizer, Philips, Pinterest, Quantas, Reddit, Sage, Samsung, SAP, Schneider Electric, Scribd, Securitas Direct, Siemens, Slack, Sony, SoundCloud, Spotify, Square Enix, Tata Motors, The Weather Company, Twitch, Turner Broadcasting,Ticketmaster, Time Inc., Trainline, Ubisoft, UCAS, Unilever, US Department of State, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, UK Ministry of Justice, Vodafone Italy, WeTransfer, WIX, Xiaomi, Yelp, Zynga and Zillow.

So, much of the internet, including Patch — which was unable to publish this story yesterday as the outage was happening.