"A problem at Amazon's cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world early Monday, taking down dozens of online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world's biggest organizations. Its customers include government departments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press."
"Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to its domain name system, which converts web addresses into IP addresses so websites and apps can load on internet-connected devices. On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald's app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the outage."
An Amazon Web Services outage early Monday disrupted internet use worldwide and took down dozens of online services, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite and Signal. Amazon began recovering about three hours after the outage started. AWS supplies cloud computing infrastructure to governments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press. Amazon attributed the outage to problems with its domain name system, which converts web addresses into IP addresses. Reports on DownDetector and posts from Coinbase and Signal indicated widespread service issues. Amazon devices and services such as Ring cameras, Alexa speakers, the Amazon website and Kindle downloads were also affected. AWS has experienced similar outages before.
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