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According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.
How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.
Since a large portion of the internet depends on AWS, the outage cascaded across major firms in disparate industries, leaving some people unable to access airline information or make everyday purchases, Qi Liao, a professor of computer science at Central Michigan University, told ABC News.
Battlefield 6 has acknowledged reports of widespread server and connectivity issues with the game, and says it could be connected to the Amazon's AWS outages.
Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.
AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) server outages have affected a significant chunk of the Internet, including ongoing problems for Reddit.