Amazon's AWS Outage Disrupts Global Internet Services

Thousands of global sites faced disruption when Amazon's cloud service, AWS, experienced a significant outage. The issue, originating from AWS's US-EAST-1 data center in Virginia, affected major apps like Snapchat and Reddit. While some services began recovery, others continued facing operational issues.

Amazon's AWS cloud service suffered a major outage on Monday, stemming from its US-EAST-1 facility in Virginia. The breakdown disrupted thousands of websites globally, including Snapchat and Reddit, showcasing the vulnerabilities of interconnected technologies.

The outage, linked to a Domain Name System (DNS) issue, persisted for over nine hours before issues began to resolve gradually. Affected services like Venmo and Zoom continued experiencing errors, according to users' reports.

The incident highlights the risk associated with depending on a few large cloud providers. Experts emphasize the need for improved fault tolerance in software development to mitigate such disruptions in the future.

(With inputs from agencies.)