Venmo, like the rest of the AWS-powered internet, was struggling today. Reports of a widespread outage began flooding DownDetector early Monday (October 20) morning as Venmo users ran into log-in errors, failed payments, and other issues with the popular peer-to-peer payment platform. It's been just one of hundreds of outages across internet services after Amazon Web Services went down and took out half the internet with it.
DownDetector reports about Venmo started ramping up around 9 a.m. ET, jumping from a few hundred to over 8,000 in an hour. By about 1 p.m., after Amazon pushed out one of several promised fixes over the course of the day, reports were hovering at around 5,000 before falling back down near zero within a few hours. Now it seems Venmo is back up and running fully, though I tested the app and it's still running a bit slow.
