"Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon's cloud computing service that took down dozens of major 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."
"Amazon Web Services provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to many government departments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press, which allows them to provide online services. 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. DownDetector said the problems were: Possibly related to issues at Amazon Web Services."
Amazon Web Services experienced a widespread outage early Monday that disrupted dozens of major online services worldwide, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Signal, Coinbase, Robinhood and many others. The outage affected both third-party services and Amazon products such as Ring doorbell cameras, Alexa-enabled speakers and Kindle downloads. DownDetector reported issues across multiple apps and services and noted the problems were possibly related to Amazon Web Services. Amazon attributed the disruption to issues with its domain name system, which converts web addresses into IP addresses, and posted that engineers were investigating increased error rates and latencies in the US-EAST-1 region. About three hours after initial trouble, Amazon said recovery was beginning across most affected services.
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