AWS regional outage cuts dozens of sites offline in Oregon

A regional AWS outage in the US-West-2 (Oregon) region disrupted access to dozens of popular websites and services, including Apple Pay, DoorDash, Reddit, and Hulu, and affected AWS offerings such as EC2, ECS, API Gateway, and IoT Core. The issues began around 6:40 a.m. ET and were resolved by about 9 a.m. ET, with AWS attributing the disruption to connectivity problems and reporting no data loss. The event highlighted how regional cloud outages can ripple across many online services.