An Amazon Web Services outage has been causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.

On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.

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    1 day ago

    Lol, this has always been the thing we have told them would happen. When the company pitches why its so good and how they have a lot of data centers all over so there will never be a large scale outage we all laughed and said ok sure not yet but we’ll see. We’ll here it is!