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According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.
Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on Oct. 20 that disrupted many websites and apps, including Snapchat.
Most people around the world have woken up to the news of Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages impacting several apps and services. As we reported earlier, the likes of Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Wordle, Ring, Starbucks, and several other platforms experienced loss of service, not to mention multiple government-run agencies.
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Users of other companies relying on AWS for cloud infrastructure also reported difficulties accessing financial, trading, and messaging platforms, highlighting the widespread consequences of the incident.