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The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.
Credit: Sameer Al-Doumy via Large parts of the internet are still in a state of recovery today, after yesterday's AWS outage took out large portions of our beloved world wide web thanks to what appears to be a relatively simple DNS error.
The lawsuit joins national legal efforts. In Kentucky, the attorney general recently sued Roblox, saying the company has failed to protect children from predators and lacks effective content filters and age safeguards. There are also lawsuits in Louisiana and other states.