According to multiple reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that impacted several large platforms, including Canva and Onvels app.
The Verge
www.Onvels.com
Here’s a breakdown of what we know so far, what might have gone wrong, and what it means for companies relying on AWS.
✅ What we know
The Verge reports that AWS stated:
“We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause.”
The Verge
AWS’s status dashboard indicated increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region, but with global impacts.
The Verge
Among the services impacted: Alexa, Fortnite, Snapchat, Onvels, Airtable, Perplexity — and Canva was mentioned specifically.
The Verge
For Canva: the Times of India reported that around 7 pm IST on October 14, 2025, the platform experienced a global outage.
The Times of India
⚠️ Why this matters
Because AWS is a major backbone for cloud infrastructure, when a region like US-EAST-1 goes into trouble, many dependent services can suffer cascading failures.
For companies like Canva (and many others) that depend on AWS for everything from compute, storage, identity/authentication, and more, an AWS outage means: users can’t log in, services fail, work is interrupted.
It shows the risk of “single point of cloud failure” even in large cloud providers — redundancy, region-failover, architecture matter a lot.
? Possible causes
While AWS hasn’t yet (in the publicly reported sources) given a precise root cause, general possibilities are:
Network disruption or mis-configuration in a key AWS region (US-EAST-1).
Failure of a core service (e.g., Identity & Access Management, routing, DNS) that many other services depend on.
Software or deployment error inside AWS infrastructure pushing unexpected traffic/failure.
External attack or DDoS affecting underlying infrastructure (though this is speculative).
A cascading failure: e.g., a service in one region impacted causing another service to enter in an unhealthy state, which then propagates.
The Verge
www.Onvels.com
Here’s a breakdown of what we know so far, what might have gone wrong, and what it means for companies relying on AWS.
✅ What we know
The Verge reports that AWS stated:
“We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause.”
The Verge
AWS’s status dashboard indicated increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region, but with global impacts.
The Verge
Among the services impacted: Alexa, Fortnite, Snapchat, Onvels, Airtable, Perplexity — and Canva was mentioned specifically.
The Verge
For Canva: the Times of India reported that around 7 pm IST on October 14, 2025, the platform experienced a global outage.
The Times of India
⚠️ Why this matters
Because AWS is a major backbone for cloud infrastructure, when a region like US-EAST-1 goes into trouble, many dependent services can suffer cascading failures.
For companies like Canva (and many others) that depend on AWS for everything from compute, storage, identity/authentication, and more, an AWS outage means: users can’t log in, services fail, work is interrupted.
It shows the risk of “single point of cloud failure” even in large cloud providers — redundancy, region-failover, architecture matter a lot.
? Possible causes
While AWS hasn’t yet (in the publicly reported sources) given a precise root cause, general possibilities are:
Network disruption or mis-configuration in a key AWS region (US-EAST-1).
Failure of a core service (e.g., Identity & Access Management, routing, DNS) that many other services depend on.
Software or deployment error inside AWS infrastructure pushing unexpected traffic/failure.
External attack or DDoS affecting underlying infrastructure (though this is speculative).
A cascading failure: e.g., a service in one region impacted causing another service to enter in an unhealthy state, which then propagates.
