What you need to know • Amazon Web Services outage disrupted major platforms and services worldwide. • Outage peaked around 3 AM ET impacting over 13,000 users according to Downdetector. • Incident highlights reliance on major cloud providers, prompting calls for diverse multi-cloud strategies.
People woke up to another widespread internet outage early Monday morning (Oct. 20), and this time it was Amazon's Web Services that was causing it. The company's cloud platform that a major chunk of the internet including apps like Reddit, Fortnite, Snapchat, Canva, Apple TV, and more rely on saw disruptions to it servics. Some reports even claim that government services around the world and many companys were impacted by this outage.
According to several sources, people started seeing issu