India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by an outage, disrupting scores of apps and websites using its cloud service network. Complaints of an AWS outage began spiking just after 7:30 am London time, according to Downdetector, with data showing thousands of user reports.

"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 in a post on X.

Perplexity too attributed its downtime to the AWS outage. "Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We...