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. Posts ...

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour ...

The outage originated from a server issue in AWS’s Northern Virginia data centre. AWS identified DNS resolution problems affecting DynamoDB requests in the US-EAST-1 region. Services across games, ...

Websites and apps affected by the outage included Amazon services like Amazon Music, Prime Video, Ring and Alexa, as well as other platforms such as Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom, Reddit, Signal, ...