AWS Down: Major Outage Hits Amazon Web Services; Snapchat, Perplexity, Canva, Coinbase Among Affected Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly down, causing widespread disruptions across platforms like Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Canva, and Amazon. Users reported issues on X (formerly Twitter), noting outages in services like EC2 and DynamoDB.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly down, causing major disruptions across several popular platforms. As per a post of  Downdetector on X (formerly Twitter) on October 20, users have reported problems on AWS outage. Many took to the social media platform X to share their experiences. One user said, “AWS Outage in one region taking down everything. us-east-1. Affected services are currently Amazon EC2 and DynamoDB.” Another wrote, “AWS is down. Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack,... Half of the internet is affected."  The AWS  impact has reportedly spread, disrupting access to many online platforms. Coinbase support team said, "We're aware many users are currently unable to access Coinbase due to an AWS outage." Perplexity Down: Perplexity AI Services Not Working for Users Worldwide, CEO Aravind Srinivas Says ‘Root Cause Is an AWS Issue’.

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