Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Online Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a major cloud computing provider, experienced a significant outage that affected numerous online services worldwide. The problem began around 3:11 AM Eastern Time, causing increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. Many popular platforms, including Snapchat, Robinhood, and various gaming services, reported issues during this time.

AWS engineers worked actively to resolve the problem. By 6 AM Eastern Time, Amazon announced that most affected services were recovering. They confirmed that global services relying on the US-EAST-1 region had also been restored. However, the company continued to work towards a full resolution.

Experts explain that such outages can have widespread impacts because many businesses and organizations rely on cloud services provided by a few major companies like Amazon. While these incidents can be disruptive, they are usually resolved within hours rather than days.