Amazon, the outage and global meltdown
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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 outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.
Dozens of websites and apps including Lloyds Bank and Snapchat were knocked offline today. Amazon Web Services later said it was showing ‘significant signs of recovery’