Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing arm, suffered a major global outage on Monday, disrupting a wide range of online platforms — from social media and gaming to streaming and finance apps.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing arm, suffered a major global outage on Monday, disrupting a wide range of online platforms — from social media and gaming to streaming and finance apps. Amazon later confirmed that the issue had been “fully mitigated”, though millions of users continued facing disruptions across services like Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Venmo, Apple TV, and Roblox. Advertisement
The outage, caused by a malfunction at one of AWS’s data centres in Northern Virginia, coincided with Diwali celebrations in India, creating unexpected chaos for tech profess