Canva, Snapchat and AWS
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If you were struggling to connect to your work apps, you aren't alone - Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. After an issue in one of its US regions overnight, users were unable to access services such as Zoom, Slack and Canva - all of which run on AWS systems - before the issue spread to the US.
Smart mattress brand Eight Sleep is working on a new failsafe for future outages after customers were unable to make changes to their products.
Canva outage hits 220M users amid AWS failure—login errors, edit crashes and download blocks. Freelancers and businesses face chaos; top alternatives listed.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.
The cloud-based design app went dark for a few hours on Oct 20 and 21. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted Canvas learning software used by local school districts, forcing educators to adapt their teaching methods.
Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services,