Amazon Web Services (AWS), the brand's cloud computing division was hit with a major outage on Monday, sending shockwaves across most of the world's biggest apps and websites that are powered by the platform.
Designing app Canva, mobile shooter Player Unknown BattleGrounds (PUBG), Snapchat, and language learning app Duolingo were among hundreds of apps hit by the outage for users across the world.
According to outage monitor Downdetector, at 6:56 AM UTC (12:26 PM IST), "users started reporting issues with AWS, in particular with the US East 1 region", a BBC report said.
By 8:50 AM UTC (2:20 PM IST), "over 500 companies, across all of (Downdetector's) 66 sites, are reporting issues", the report added.
Even government and banking applications in the UK were hit with a sharp spike in outages, such as the HMRC, the UK's tax, payments, and customs authority, and Halifax Bank.
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