Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Internet Services
Many popular internet services, including streaming platforms, messaging services, and banks, were offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's cloud network.
- Streaming platforms: Amazon Prime Video, Disney+
- Messaging services: Signal, WhatsApp
- Gaming: Fortnite
- Other services: Airbnb, Snapchat, Duolingo, Perplexity AI
- Banks: Lloyd's (UK)
The disruption was caused by an issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market.
AWS's maintenance site reported "increased error rates" hitting multiple services at 0711 GMT.
AWS engineers worked to fix the underlying DNS issue.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts internet services.
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