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Amazon Web Services mercilessly mocked with a slew of memes after major websites go down for hours
An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world.
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.
Amazon Web Servies is experiencing global outage issues, according to DownDetector. What's impacted? Are websites down? What we know.
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
A widespread outage has hit Amazon Web Services (AWS), disrupting major websites and apps around the globe. The issue, centered in AWS’s US-East-1 region, began around midnight EST, causing server errors, timeouts and failed connections. The website health tracker Downdetector lit up as users reported issues en masse.
A widespread internet disruption early Monday left millions of users unable to access popular platforms like Snapchat, Amazon, Coinbase, Reddit, Hulu, EA, and Xbox Network. The outage has been traced back to Amazon Web Services (AWS),