Users have been jumping to Down Detector to report the popular peer-to-peer payment platform Venmo is down. It's one of hundreds of outages acorss internet services after Amazon Web Services went down earlier today, taking out half the internet with it.

DownDetector reports about Venmo started ramping up around 9 a.m. ET, jumping from a few hundred to over 8,000 in just a few hours. It's on a long list of popular software that are having issues right now, from Canva and Fortnite to Amazon's own Alexa voice assistant. We've reached out to Venmo to learn more.

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in its Northern Virginia datacenters at 3:11 AM ET on Monday. By 5:01AM, AWS had figured out that a DNS

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