AWS Outage: Several online platforms, including Amazon’s cloud division AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat, and Perplexity AI, experienced disruptions on Monday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. The issue appeared to originate from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers a large portion of the internet’s backend infrastructure, Reuters reported. It caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupted services for several popular websites and apps, including Fortnite and Snapchat.

What did AWS say?

"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.

Full list of sites, apps impacted by AWS outage

Amazon.com

Prime Video

Alexa

Robinhood

Snapchat

Perplexity AI

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