Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage, impacting various Amazon-owned services and businesses, including Whole Foods, Alexa devices, and Amazon delivery operations. The issue originated from increased contention in the Kinesis data processing subsystem within the US-EAST-1 region. This degradation affected multiple AWS services, including CloudWatch, ECS Fargate, and API Gateway. AWS engineers identified the root cause and were working to resolve it, but recovery progress was slower than expected. The outage also disrupted other Amazon-owned services such as Ring and Goodreads.
