WORLDWIDE — A WIDESPREAD INTERNET DISRUPTION RELATED TO AMAZON WORLD SERVICES affected users around the globe . Several major online services connected with major cloud service companies went offline just after 3 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 20. Amazon Web Services provides background cloud computing infrastructure to news agencies including the Associated Press, government departments, universities and corporations. At least 64 consumer apps were reportedly affected. Home video surveillance and security service Amazon Ring, voice-driven information service Alexa, social media companies like SnapChat and Signa, and video games Fortnite and the Roblox also experienced outages.

Amazon has blamed the outage on issues related to their domain name system, an apparatus that converts web addresses int

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