Snapchat, AWS
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Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat and caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world.AWS said it was seeing increased "error rates and latencies" for multiple services.
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.