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Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on Oct. 20 that disrupted many websites and apps, including Snapchat.
Airlines also reported website and check-in glitches, with apps like Fortnite, Snapchat, and Duolingo, in addition to a number of financial platforms, seeing significant downtime. This episode highlighted the internet's dependence on just a handful of cloud providers,
Users reported outages with Snapchat, WhatsApp, Signal and Zoom, as well as Google and YouTube. AWS said the underlying issue has been fully resolved.
An Amazon Web Services outage continued into Monday afternoon, impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world.