Snapchat, other apps, sites down as outage hits Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s cloud services unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been hit by an outage, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world, Al Jazeera reports.

The services disrupted include several popular websites and apps, including Fortnite, Snapchat and Duolingo.

AI startup Perplexity, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and trading app Robinhood attributed the outages to AWS.

AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals.