Attendees at Amazon.com Inc.’s annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Nov. 30, 2017. Salvador Rodriguez/Reuters
A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services early Oct. 20 caused major disruptions across dozens of popular platforms, apps, and games—including Snapchat, Zoom, Coinbase and Fortnite—as one of the world’s most critical cloud infrastructure providers grappled with service failures in one of its busiest data regions.
AWS, Amazon’s $100 billion cloud division, underpins large swaths of global infrastructure, hosting everything from streaming platforms and smartphone apps to financial services and emergency systems.
