The Brief
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.
The issue began around 3:11 a.m. ET in the U.S.-East-1 region, with Amazon later reporting "significant signs of recovery."
The cause of the outage remains unknown , highlighting global reliance on a few major cloud providers.
A major outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread disruptions early Monday, impacting apps, financial platforms, and companies that rely on its cloud computing infrastructure, according to The Associated Press.
What we know:
The first signs of trouble emerged around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time when Amazon Web Services reported "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the U.S