Amazon Web Services, AWS outage
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An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`
Amazon's cloud computer service is recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world for several hours on Monday.
An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.
The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems and highlights the vulnerability
Hundreds of online services went temporarily offline across North America and Europe on Monday morning amid suggestions that the problem was linked to an outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in North Virginia.