Massive AWS Outage Affects Snapchat and Canva

The global outage disrupted popular platforms like Snapchat, Roblox, Canva, and Duolingo.

A major worldwide outage has hit several of the biggest websites and apps this morning, with major names such as Snapchat, Roblox, Canva, and Duolingo all suffering downtime.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud provider behind many of these platforms, is at fault for the disruption. It began reporting faults across multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region at midnight Pacific Time, with the underlying DNS issue fully mitigated by 3AM PDT.

However, three hours later, Amazon reported new API and connectivity issues, with further investigation underway to resolve them.

Even after mitigation efforts, services running on AWS are expected to remain unstable for a few hours due to traffic spikes and other technical factors. Beyond the thousands of apps, games, and websites affected, some of Amazon’s own services also went down during the outage ...