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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported a major outage impacting online services such as Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, and Fortnite.
On the AWS service checker, they "confirm significant error rates" in the "US-EAST-1 Region".
Reports started at 12:11AM PDT on October 20, with AW stating: "We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. We will provide another update in the next 30-45 minutes."
Later, at 12:51 PDT, they added: "We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API.
"We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause. We will