Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major part of the retail giant Amazon. (File Photo) Some of the world’s biggest web applications including Snapchat, Duolingo, and Zoom are facing outage, in what appears to be an issue affecting the Amazon Web Services, BBC reported on Monday.
Users have reported a spike in issues affecting these platforms, according to platform outage monitor Downdetector – with more than 5,000 issues flagged by Snapchat users, the report said.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a major part of the retail giant Amazon, in an update on its status page stated that there are “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region”.
Engineers are “immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause”, it added, as per the report.
