Amazon Web Services—AWS US-EAST-1 outage disrupted major services including Ring, Alexa, and Disney+ for hours
On December 7, 2021, a major AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread disruptions lasting approximately 5 hours. Affected services included Amazon's own Ring doorbells, Alexa voice assistant, and third-party services like Disney+, Robinhood, and McDonald's mobile ordering. The outage highlighted systemic risks of cloud infrastructure concentration, as thousands of businesses depend on a single AWS region.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Accountability | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.443 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)× agency (negligent ×0.5)
Evidence (1 signal)
PBS and NBC News report major AWS US-EAST-1 outage disrupting thousands of services
On December 7, 2021, a major AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread disruptions for hours. Affected services included Ring, Alexa, Disney+, and thousands of third-party businesses. AWS declined to share detailed root cause analysis.