Snapchat, AWS and the outage
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More than 1,000 apps and websites - including social media platforms like Snapchat and banks such as Lloyds and Halifax - were impacted by problems that Amazon said were at the heart of the cloud computing giant's operations in the US.
Snapchat is down globally due to an AWS outage. Here’s why the app isn’t working and what you can do about it.
Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.
Model Miranda Kerr revealed that her husband, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, has a surprising stance on screen time when it comes to their children. “My husband is very anti-screens for the young ones,” Kerr said on Monday’s episode of “The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast.” “Because that’s the way he was raised.”
Snapchat continues to experience outages due to the recent AWS outage, with Downdetector reporting over 21,000 outage reports peaking at 3:12 AM ET. Users are facing issues with access and features even as AWS claims to have solved the underlying problem.