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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - An Amazon Web Service outage is causing major delays and issues among different online services. According to Downdetector, an online website that tracks outages by reports from users, people are seeing outages on Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Venmo, Verizon, Lyft and multiple other websites.
Look, I’m more than just a little bit addicted to Clash Royale, and the popular tower defense game is one of the many casualties of today’s internet outage. Amazon better get this fixed quick, because I don’t want to lose from 50+ day streak I’ve currently got going.
A major outage caused by an issue at Amazon Web Services has affected hundreds of websites, games and apps, including Amazon, Snapchat, Fortnite and several banks. Amazon says it has fixed the underlying problem but a full recovery will take longer.