Huge Outage Knocks Out Amazon, Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, Slack and a Lot More

A major outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon, has disrupted a wide range of online services and platforms. The outage affected the availability of websites, social media networks, work collaboration tools, and video games, including Amazon, Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, and Slack. The exact cause of the outage is not yet known, but it appears to be related to issues in the AWS East Coast region. The outage has highlighted the reliance of many digital services on a few centralized cloud infrastructure providers, as the disruption in one area can have far-reaching consequences. While the duration and impact of the outage varied across different services, it has raised concerns about the resilience and redundancy of critical online infrastructure. As the digital world becomes increasingly interconnected, the need for robust and reliable cloud-based systems has become more crucial than ever.