Internet Chaos! AWS Outage Knocks Out Fortnite, Snapchat, and Major Sites—What Caused the Early Morning Disruption?
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
GLOBAL TECH NEWS – The start of the work week was marred by widespread digital chaos after Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading cloud services platform, experienced a significant outage early Monday morning. The disruption caused widespread connectivity issues, taking down or affecting operations for a number of high-profile companies and popular consumer apps.
The outage, centered in the critical US-EAST-1 Region, began around 3:11 a.m. ET, leading to “increased error rates and latencies” across multiple AWS services.
