Massive AWS Outage Disrupts Snapchat, Canva, Fortnite Globally

A significant outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused widespread disruptions across multiple major online platforms including Perplexity, Canva, Snapchat, Fortnite, Microsoft 365, Roblox, Duolingo, and others, predominantly affecting users in the US East region. AWS confirmed high error rates at the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 region, impacting various services and leading to issues such as login failures, media upload problems, and gameplay disruptions. The outage generated thousands of reports on platforms like Downdetector, with Snapchat being notably the most impacted. AWS engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue and determine its root cause, but full recovery may take several hours. Despite the disruption, Amazon's stock showed limited immediate impact, reflecting investor confidence in AWS's resilience, though the company's shares have seen slight declines year-to-date amid broader market trends. Users of affected services are experiencing ongoing access and functionality problems as AWS continues its investigation and remediation efforts.