A major outage occurred in AWS's CDN service, causing difficulties in accessing various websites.
Amazon CloudFront, AWS's CDN service, is experiencing a major outage.
Service health - Jul 16, 2026 | AWS Health Dashboard | Global
According to the AWS status page, an issue occurred with CloudFront around 4:45 PM JST on July 16, 2026. The impact is limited to users using Amazon CloudFront's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Japanese websites are also being affected. For example, accessing '
Although the connection is unclear, Niconico Video has also reported problems such as 'unable to access Niconico Live' and 'unable to log in or log out of Niconico.'
[Under Investigation] Issues such as being unable to access Niconico Live | Niconico Info
https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/8596
The problem is occurring on a global scale, and even Hugging Face, a major AI model distribution service, is experiencing connectivity issues. The Hugging Face status page states that 'due to an AWS outage, the service is unavailable in most areas around the world.'
Hugging Face Status
https://status.huggingface.co/
An issue has occurred where users are unable to log in to 'My Number Portal'.
System Outages and Maintenance | My Number Portal
https://myna.go.jp/html/info/index.html
There are reports that the payment service 'PayPay' is currently unavailable, and its official website is also inaccessible.
PayPay - A smartphone app for cashless payments using QR codes.
https://paypay.ne.jp/
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