Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts Global Internet, Affecting Financial Platforms, Retailers, And Social Media Apps

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A major AWS outage early Monday disrupted global services including Facebook, Robinhood, and United Airlines. Amazon traced the issue to DynamoDB at U.S. East Coast data centers.

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00:03Amazon Web Services suffered a widespread outage early Monday that disrupted major websites and

00:08apps across the globe, including Facebook, Snapchat, and Amazon, according to the Wall

00:13Street Journal. Financial platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase, and Venmo, airlines such as United and

00:20tools like Slack, Perplexity, also experienced service interruptions. A WS Engineer's traced

00:26the issue to Amazon DynamoDB, which powers database storage and computing for millions

00:32of websites. The outage began around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, peaked with major disruptions,

00:37and started recovering by 5.30 a.m., according to Amazon's updates. A WS said the problem

00:44originated in data centers along the U.S. East Coast. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.

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