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.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Yup.

    “Oh hey, we have a partial outage right now due to AWS. Most of the site still works, but users can’t log in, because that is handled on AWS… Which means users can’t access the “most of the site” that still works… But at least we can say we weren’t completely down during the outage.”