FAIRFAX, Va. — An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services. As we work to learn more about the cause of the outage, and a timeline for restoration, here's what we know right now.

The nature of the outage

AWS first reported the issue at 12:11 a.m. ET , describing it as an "operational issue" affecting 14 key services, including DynamoDB, Lambda, and EC2. Engineers confirmed increased error rates and latency spikes , disrupting both infrastru

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