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Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.
A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.
Snapchat continues to experience outages due to the recent AWS outage, with Downdetector reporting over 21,000 outage reports peaking at 3:12 AM ET. Users are facing issues with access and features even as AWS claims to have solved the underlying problem.
Amazon's cloud computing service experienced a major outage on Monday, disrupting many online services like Snapchat, Roblox, and Signal