AWS is down. A major AWS outage has taken down several popular services worldwide, including Signal, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat and many more. The specific cause of the service outage is currently unclear, according to AWS and they are working on fix. Yup, it is US-EAST-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

@nixCraft it's ALWAYS US-EAST-1
@renatoram @nixCraft It's becomming the new "it's always DNS", although that may well end up being the cause anyway.
@pugmiester @renatoram @nixCraft Confirmed. 😀 One of their status updates said: "Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution..."