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AWS Outage Disrupts Major Services Like Snapchat and Fortnite in US-EAST-1
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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.
Why It Matters
This outage underscores the critical role of Amazon Web Services in powering essential online platforms and raises questions about the resilience of cloud computing services, which many businesses increasingly rely on for operations.