Amazon Web Services outage takes down Duolingo, Snapchat, Roblox and other major sites

Serious issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS) have rendered a number of big-name apps and services inaccessible. The likes of Fortnite, Roblox, Duolingo, Ring and many more have been suffering as a result of the problems. The issues first came to light thanks to spikes in reports to Downdetector, but Amazon Web Services has also acknowledged a series of errors. The problems affect multiple AWS services, and the severity of disruption is high. It is the North Virginia data center that is experiencing issues, but the ripple effect is being felt all over the world. Amazon Web Services says that… [Continue Reading]