Amazon, outage and Websites and services
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An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.
It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.