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- A major Amazon Web Services outage appears to have brought down many online services, including Snapchat and Perplexity.
- An AWS status page reports that more than 50 of its tools are affected by the outage.
- Other online services that use AWS infrastructure, including Zoom, Strava, and Alexa, also appear to be affected.
A major Amazon Web Services outage appears to have brought down many online services, including Snapchat, Signal, and Perplexity.
A status page for Amazon’s cloud unit showed more than 50 of its tools were affected as of 5:20 am ET on Monday.
Many other online services that use AWS’ cloud infrastructure, including Zoom, Strava, and Amazon’s Alexa assistant, appeared to be experiencing outages Monday morning, according to DownDetector, a site that tracks online outages.
Business Insider has contacted Amazon for comment.
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI startup Perplexity, confirmed in an X post that its service is down. “The root cause is an AWS issue,” he said. “We’re working on resolving it.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
