BUFFALO, N.Y. — Amazon Web Services (AWS), a major cloud hosting provider that powers much of the internet, suffered multiple outages Monday , disrupting hundreds of popular websites and services worldwide. The first outage began around 3 a.m. Eastern, affecting major sites including Amazon, Venmo, Hulu, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Slack, Fortnite, and Microsoft 365. AWS confirmed the issue stemmed from network connectivity problems in its US-EAST-1 region.

A second disruption struck around 10:30 a.m., causing Adobe and Amazon’s own services to become completely unreachable. By noon, some services, including Amazon.com, were back online, though others, like Amazon Music, remained down. At the University at Buffalo, certain services were affected, according to Professor Tevfik Kosar. Profess

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