Amazon Web Services outage hits major websites
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More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world. The outage on Monday took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
Mashable reached out to Amazon to ask if the company was still delivering packages during the ongoing AWS outage on Monday, Oct. 20.
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said most services were back up after an issue caused outages at many websites.
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