Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of sites and services that were impacted when Amazon Web Services went down.

Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, Alexa, and Canva faced major downtime as Amazon Web Services suffered a global disruption, reports Downdetector.

Most people around the world have woken up to the news of Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages impacting several apps and services. As we reported earlier, the likes of Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Wordle, Ring, Starbucks, and several other platforms experienced loss of service, not to mention multiple government-run agencies.

A widespread outage has hit Amazon Web Services (AWS), disrupting major websites and apps around the globe. The issue, centered in AWS’s US-East-1 region, began around midnight EST, causing server errors, timeouts and failed connections. The website health tracker Downdetector lit up as users reported issues en masse.

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AM Pacific Time (or 3:42 PM Indian Standard Time) on October 20, the internet’s invisible access lanes stopped working at the world’s largest online webhost situated in the USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS),

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Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Dozens of sites and apps went dark this morning. Here's why.