If your favorite app stopped working recently, you weren’t alone, as a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down some of the biggest names on the internet. Affected parties include Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and yes, even ChatGPT. The issue was traced back to AWS’s US-EAST-1 region, which might sound like just one data center, but it’s actually the backbone of the entire internet.

Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region failure caused widespread outages, exposing how fragile our always-online world really is

Since AWS powers millions of apps and websites, when that system stumbles, the impact isn’t small or local - it’s global. The outage was reportedly caused by a DNS routing problem, and while Amazon fixed it in a few hours, the ripple effect was huge. People were left out of thei

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