Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Internet Services
Many popular internet services were offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's cloud network.
- Streaming platforms: Amazon's Prime Video, Disney+
- Messaging services: Signal, WhatsApp
- Banks: Lloyd's
- Other services: Perplexity AI, Fortnite, Airbnb, Snapchat, Duolingo
According to Downdetector, mobile telephone services and messaging apps were also affected in Europe.
AWS handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites around the world.
AWS's engineers scrambled to fix the underlying DNS issue after becoming aware of "increased error rates" at 0711 GMT.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts many internet services.
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