India, Oct. 20 -- Several online platforms including Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) are down for thousands of users in the United States on Monday, according to Downdetector. As per the platform, Amazon.com, Prime Video and Alexa are facing issues.

In an update on its status page, AWS said, "We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region."

Apart from AWS, many users are reporting issues with other online platforms, including Robinhood, Snapchat, Perplexity and Paypal's Venmo.

Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity has said that the root cause of the outage with the AI chatbot was an AWS issue. "Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're worki...