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What happened to the Internet on Monday?

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A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread disruptions to thousands of websites and apps globally on Monday, affecting platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, Zoom, Venmo, and even government services. The outage was traced to a DNS issue in AWS's core Virginia region, highlighting the internet's reliance on a few cloud providers.

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Amazon Web Services outage disrupts websites, apps

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  • Amazon Web Services outage caused widespread disruptions for thousands of websites and apps. 26s
  • Major platforms like Facebook, Zoom, Snapchat, and PlayStation Network were affected. 9s
  • DownDetector received nearly 10 million outage reports, with over 350,000 from Canada. 46s
  • Both large and small businesses, including payroll services, experienced service interruptions. 1m 21s
  • Amazon identified the problem and worked to restore services as quickly as possible. 1m 46s
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Amazon Web Services outage disrupts websites, apps
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CBC News
13 hours ago
Amazon Web Services outage disrupts websites, apps

The outage began early Monday morning, affecting platforms like Facebook, Zoom, Snapchat, Sony's PlayStation Network, and McDonald's app, with nearly 10 million outage reports.

Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage
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Reuters
20 hours ago
Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage

A major internet outage disrupted thousands of sites worldwide, including Snapchat and Reddit, due to an AWS issue, but services were largely restored by Monday afternoon.

Why an Amazon Web Services outage disrupts so much of the internet
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CBS News
1 day ago
Why an Amazon Web Services outage disrupts so much of the internet

Millions of users in the U.S. and Western Europe experienced disruptions to social media, gaming, and financial sites due to a technical failure at an AWS data center in Northern Virginia.

Major apps, websites disrupted by Amazon Web Services outage
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CBS News
1 day ago
Major apps, websites disrupted by Amazon Web Services outage

Amazon's cloud service AWS went down across the country, causing websites and apps to stop working, impacting businesses like Facebook, Roblox, Venmo, Delta Airlines, and McDonald's.

Eight million users flag problems following AWS outage
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CNBC
1 day ago
Eight million users flag problems following AWS outage

The outage began around 3 a.m. with network and DNS failures in AWS's core Virginia region, affecting over eight million users and services like AI platforms.

AWS outage mostly resolved after hours-long global disruption
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France 24
2 days ago
AWS outage mostly resolved after hours-long global disruption

A global outage hit Amazon's cloud services, impacting Snapchat, Signal, Disney Plus, McDonald's, and even the UK tax authority, with the source traced to a critical infrastructure zone in Virginia.

AWS outage crashes world's biggest websites, apps
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10 News First
2 days ago
AWS outage crashes world's biggest websites, apps

A major internet outage affected dozens of websites and apps worldwide, including Amazon, Snapchat, Signal, Fortnite, and some UK banking systems, all linked to AWS.

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