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"We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services," read the latest update from the AWS status page. "The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers."
An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald's app.
A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.
As the backbone for thousands of platforms, AWS plays a critical role in powering everything from banking apps to entertainment services. Metrics from 2024 show AWS held 37% of the global cloud market share,