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AWS Outage Disrupts Global Online Services

A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has disrupted online services worldwide, affecting platforms such as Snapchat, Fortnite, and Reddit.

According to downdetector.com, approximately 2,000 websites, apps, and banking services have reported problems, including well-known brands like Starbucks and McDonald's.

AWS reported that the issue is centered on its US-EAST-1 region, highlighting the heavy reliance of businesses worldwide, including in Ireland, on a small number of cloud providers for critical operations.

Author's summary: AWS outage affects thousands of websites and apps.

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