India, Oct. 20 -- Multiple popular online platforms including Amazon's cloud division AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat, and Perplexity AI experienced disruptions on Monday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. The issue appeared to originate from Amazon Web Services, which powers a large portion of the internet's backend infrastructure.

Downdetector reported over 2,000 outage incidents for AWS in the United States, with users flagging problems accessing a wide range of digital services and apps. Amazon's own ecosystem was not spared - Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa all faced connectivity issues, the monitoring site showed.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas confirmed in a post that the root cause of the disruptions was an AWS-rel...