Amazon Web Services outage disrupts Snapchat, Robinhood and more

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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN]) Web Services is experiencing a major outage that has disrupted several websites, apps and online games.

"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," the company posted on the AWS health dashboard.

"Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause," it updated [https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status].

User complaints began [https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/] spiking around 2:30 am EST, according to Downdetector, which tracks complaints about websites and online services. Thousands of users have registered complaints at the time of writing.

Impacted apps include Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN]), Snapchat (SNAP [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SNAP]), Robinhood (HOOD [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/HOOD]), Lyft (LYFT [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LYFT]), Venmo, Disney+ (DIS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DIS]), and McDonald's (MCD [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MCD]). Games such as Roblox (RBLX [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/RBLX]) and Fortnite have also been hit.

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