Khaberni - This Monday morning, the world witnessed a widespread outage affecting a large number of global applications and websites, led by "Snapchat," according to data from the famous outage tracking site Down Detector.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest provider of cloud infrastructure that thousands of companies around the world rely on, reported currently facing "high error rates" and delays in several of its services.
The company noted in an update published on its service status page that the crisis is concentrated in data centers in the Northern Virginia region (US-East-1), and includes Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services, which are crucial for websites and applications for data storage and server operation.
The list of affected sites and applications includes:
Snapchat
Ring
Roblox
Clash Royale
Life360
MyFitnessPal
Xero
Canva
Slack
Steam
Amazon
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Music
Prime Video
Clash of Clans
Fortnite
Wordle
Duolingo
Coinbase
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Vodafone
PlayStation Network
Pokémon Go
What do these disruptions mean?
AWS is considered the backbone of the modern internet, as thousands of startups and global companies rely on it to operate their sites and applications, and any issues with its infrastructure directly reflect on users around the world, as happened today. While AWS teams work to address the glitch, some services still face difficulties in connecting or loading data normally.
