Snapchat and Facebook go down after global AWS outage

Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS, was hit today by an outage that took down several popular apps, including Fortnite and Snapchat, and caused problems for many companies around the world, according to CNN.

AWS said it was seeing increased "error rates and delays" for many services.

" Its cloud computing services unit, AWS, has been hit by an outage, knocking out several popular websites and apps around the world, including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite ," Amazon said.

" We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery ," she said in her latest update.

A rapidly growing list of sites are experiencing problems, according to Downdetector, which tracks internet outages.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and artificial intelligence company Perplexity also reported outages. 

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