AWS Outage Disrupts Major Services Like Snapchat and Fortnite in US-EAST-1

An extensive outage of Amazon Web Services in the US-EAST-1 region has disrupted major platforms like Snapchat and Fortnite, highlighting vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructure.

• The AWS outage began early this morning, leading to increased error rates and latencies that affected services like DynamoDB, Lambda, and EC2.
• Popular applications, including Snapchat and Fortnite, experienced significant service disruptions, impacting millions of users across the United States.
• Engineers at Amazon Web Services are currently investigating the root cause of the outage, which has raised concerns about the reliability of cloud computing services.