An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch.

The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

It started with an error in its Domain Name System at Amazon’s Virginia data center. Its oldest and largest data plant is located in so-called “Data Center Alley,” alongside hundreds of other power-hungry sites. As of 2023, data centers in Virginia eat up a quarter of the state’s available electricity . 3

The DNB translates domain names – like nypost.com – to their respective Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are strings of numbers and dots. This way, Intern

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