What happened that caused an outage for thousands of websites and apps Monday morning?
Amazon Web Services went offline early Monday , leading to issues and errors for popular websites and apps like Snapchat, Starbucks, Ring, Chime, Roblox, Fortnite and more.
The outage underlined the fragility of companies — including financial services — that use cloud-based servers to host their data, and how suddenly businesses across the globe can be impacted by an unplanned outage.
So what exactly happened?
What caused the outage?
The errors began just after 2 a.m. CT, when Amazon Web Services said it was "investigating increased error rates and latencies" for multiple sites.
By 5:35 a.m. CT, the company said the problem had been "fully mitigated," but warned "some requests may be throttled"