Amazon Web Services outage causes issues for apps, websites worldwide

Amazon Web Services Outage Causes Global Disruptions

An Amazon Web Services outage is causing disruptions globally, affecting various apps, websites, governments, universities, and companies.

The issues were reported on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, with users experiencing problems with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald's app, and many others.

According to the Associated Press, the problems occurred around 3:11 a.m. ET on Monday, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is "investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region."

Amazon also reported "significant error rates" and stated that engineers were "actively working" on the problem.

Author's summary: Amazon Web Services outage affects global apps and websites.

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