Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Internet Services
Many popular internet services, including streaming platforms, messaging services, and banks, experienced an outage on Monday due to a disruption in Amazon's cloud network.
- Streaming platforms: Amazon's Prime Video, Disney+
- Messaging services: Signal, WhatsApp
- Gaming: Fortnite
- Other services: Airbnb, Snapchat, Duolingo, Perplexity AI
- Banks: Some UK banks, such as Lloyd's
According to Downdetector, a website monitoring internet problems, the disruption affected mobile telephone services and messaging apps in Europe.
AWS handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites around the world.
AWS's maintenance site reported that engineers worked to fix the underlying DNS issue after becoming aware of "increased error rates" at 0711 GMT.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts internet services worldwide.
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