India, Oct. 20 -- If you've been unable to send Snaps or load messages on Snapchat, you're not alone. The popular social media app was among several major online platforms affected by a widespread outage linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday.

Amazon confirmed that its cloud services unit, AWS, was experiencing disruptions that impacted multiple websites and apps across the world. "We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region," the company said in an update on its official status page.

The outage affected a range of digital services that rely on AWS infrastructure - including Snapchat, Robinhood, Perplexity AI, and Coinbase, among others.

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