Amazon Web Services outage disrupts major apps and websites
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The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.
The outage at Amazon's cloud-based web services knocked out major sites like Hulu and Venmo, plus Amazon.com itself. But most websites are back online now.
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.
A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.
An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.But just what is AWS?
Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games. About three hours after the outage began,
Websites and services across the U.S. and around the world went offline early Monday after a problem at a major cloud computing service left leading games, publishers and streaming platforms unusable to millions of users.
AWS outages affect thousands of cloud customers due to DNS issue with AI usage increases making cloud outages more often for clients, Future Tech CEO says.
Several websites were down Monday, Oct. 20 as Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider, experienced an outage.
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