US EditionAmazon cloud computing outage knocks out Zoom, Roblox and many other online services
The outage, caused by DNS failure in AWS's US-EAST-1 Virginia region, disrupted services for over 30 major apps and websites, highlighting global cloud dependency, Downdetector reported.
- Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage, leading to over 2,681 user reports of problems in the past hour according to Downdetector.
- The issues affected various online services including Zoom, Snapchat, Roblox, and Vodafone, which depend on AWS infrastructure.
- AWS confirmed an increase in error rates and latencies for multiple services and stated that engineers are working to address the issue.
- The outages began in the morning and specifically impacted services in the US-EAST-1 region of AWS.
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