Amazon Web Service Outage Disrupts Global Platforms
Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced a major outage on Monday, affecting several popular web services and applications, including Canva, Snapchat, and others.
The outage, which occurred in the US East Coast region, caused widespread downtime across websites and mobile applications that rely on AWS's cloud infrastructure.
Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue and fully understanding the root cause.
According to reports from outage tracking website Downdetector, the disruption began in the early hours of Monday.
- Canva
- Snapchat
- Other global platforms
AWS disclosed that it experienced an operational issue affecting multiple services in its US East Coast region.
Author's summary: AWS outage affects major global platforms.