An outage at Amazon's cloud services unit AWS has disrupted services for several popular websites. Photo: AP PHOTO

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS has been hit by an outage, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including Fortnite and Snapchat.

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"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS said in an update on its status page.

AI startup Perplexity, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and trading app Robinhood attributed the outages to

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