A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.
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Snapchat Is Down Right Now: Here’s Why It’s Not Working & How to Fix

Snapchat is down globally due to an AWS outage. Here’s why the app isn’t working and what you can do about it.

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.

Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services

Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon's cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat,

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Did Snapchat management issue a warning to all users that there had been an update to the terms of use requiring users to forward a warning message to twenty people in two hours or their account would be deleted?

Amazon Web Services: hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Snapchat are affected

Many companies affected by Amazon Web Services outage - it knocked platforms like Zoom, Duolingo and Snapchat offline worldwide. A problem at Amazon Web Services has broken the internet...dozens of apps and websites stopped working following a huge outage.
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