AWS Outage Disrupts Online Services Globally
A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has disrupted online services worldwide, affecting platforms such as Snapchat, Fortnite, and Reddit.
- Approximately 2,000 websites, apps, and banking services have reported problems, including well-known brands like Starbucks and McDonald's.
- The issue is centered on AWS's US-EAST-1 region.
The scale of disruption highlights the heavy reliance of businesses worldwide, including in Ireland, on a small number of cloud providers for critical operations.
AWS reported the issue is centred on its US-EAST-1 region
Author's summary: AWS outage affects thousands of websites and apps.