India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said its Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage, disrupting several apps including Snapchat, Robinhood and Paypal.

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

"AWS-one of our third-party vendors-is experiencing an outage, which is affecting Robinhood services. We are aware of the issue," Robinhood said.

Perplexity too attributed its downtime to the AWS outage.

"Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're working on resolving it," Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.

AWS and Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.

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