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Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat and caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world.AWS said it was seeing increased "error rates and latencies" for multiple services.

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Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?
Amazon cloud outage disrupts service of major apps
Amazon Web Services outage explained: How long it lasted, impacted users, companies and how it was resolved - FAQs
A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted access to several major digital platforms, including financial apps, AI tools, and popular entertainment services.

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Amazon AWS outage disrupts global web as apps, banks, airlines go offline: What exactly happened?
AWS outage: Amazon reveals root cause as cloud services ‘returned to normal operations’ after worldwide internet disruption; here’s what you need to know
AWS outage explained: Causes, affected services, impact, and recovery efforts- all we know so far
The outage originated at AWS’s US-EAST-1 data center in northern Virginia, the provider’s oldest and largest site.

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What to know about Amazon's cloud outage that exposed internet's fragility
Amazon Web Services are down globally: Takes down Perplexity, Snapchat, Alexa and more; here’s what the company has to say
American Banker

Navy Federal, Truist, Chime among victims of AWS outage

A failure at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia caused widespread outages, hitting services at several banks and fintechs.

What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.
Campus Technology

Researchers Identify 'Smishing' Attack that Uses AWS SNS

A first-of-its-kind "smishing" attack is using Amazon Web Services' Simple Notification Service, or SNS, to impersonate the United States Postal Service. "Smishing" refers to an attack in which phishing messages are sent in bulk via SMS. This particular ...
ZDNet

AWS introduces additional regions, worldwide delivery for SNS

Amazon Web Services' Simple Notification Service (SNS) message delivery capability has now been made available in a total six regions, allowing for the delivery of mobile notifications to phones in more than 200 countries. SMS delivery, having previously ...
InfoQ

Amazon SNS Supports FIFO for Pub/Sub Messaging

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to ...
Virtualization Review

Working With AWS Simple Notification Service, Part 1: Basics & Setup

Amazon's message delivery service can be used to send SMS text messages and email messages, among many other things. As you work with the various AWS services, one of the things that you are sure to notice sooner or later is that several services leverage ...
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