An Amazon Web Services outage has been causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.
Meanwhile, AWS claims to host 7,500 different US government agencies (state, fed, local).
I want to see the email that goes out that says you still need to work even though you’re not getting paid and your applications aren’t functioning.