AWS Outage Disrupts Major Online Services Including Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat
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Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple online services including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and ChatGPT. The outage primarily impacts the US-EAST-1 Region but is also affecting services globally. AWS is investigating increased error rates and latencies across multiple services, with users reporting that Alexa smart assistant is down and unable to respond to queries.
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The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are 'impacted' by operational issues.
The company is 'investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region' — though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.
Users on Reddit are reporting that the Alexa smart assistant is down and unable to respond to queries or complete requests.
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