Amazon’s server outage is breaking fast food apps like McDonald’s and Taco Bell

An outage within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup is affecting multiple Internet services, including our website. AWS Health Dashboard US-East-1 notes several service outages in the region that began around 3PM ET.

The most recent update from Amazon that was posted at 5PM ET reads, “Multiple AWS services are now fully recovered and resolved on this incident. We are working to fully recover all services.” continue to do so.

Our own Mitchell Clark alerted us to an outage while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail because it appears Burger King’s mobile app has been busted. A Glance downdetector Shows that people have also reported issues with McDonald’s and Delta Air Lines that may be related, and the Taco Bell app is broken as well.

IT staff engaged reddit And hacker news Report that they cannot access the console to try to troubleshoot their problems.

For ledgeThe issues mean that the front page of the site is not updating automatically, and while we have a solution for this, some other parts of the site may fail to update for some time.

Update June 13th, 5:12PM ET: Added latest update from AWS and video showing how much internet it hosts.