A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted access to dozens of websites and applications across multiple countries, affecting millions of users and businesses that rely on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. The disruption began early Monday in AWS’s U.S.-East-1 region — one of its largest data hubs — and quickly spread, impacting global services connected through the same network. Users reported problems accessing Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa, along with third-party platforms such as Perplexity AI, Canva, Robinhood, Venmo, and Snapchat. Downdetector, an independent outage tracker, showed spikes in problem reports from the United States, Canada, the United…
Amazon Web Services outage disrupts major websites worldwide
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