India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down for thousands of users across the world, including in the US, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world.

Snapchat, Robinhood, Canva, and PUBG were among the internet platforms facing disruption. The outage on these platforms began spiking around 12 pm IST, with data from Down Detector showing thousands of user reports.

AWS, in its status page on Monday, confirmed error rates for multiple AWS services and said it was actively working to mitigate the issue and understand the root cause.

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"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may...