Amazon outage causes several large online platforms to go dark

An outage at Amazon has affected several popular websites around the world, as its cloud computer service recovers.

The company says its computer services unit has been hit by the outage, disrupting popular websites and apps globally including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite.

Amazon.com, Prime Video and Alexa are also experiencing issues.

It’s not clear what has caused the outage but Amazon says engineers are actively working to mitigate the problem.

Early reports of trouble started after 3 a.m., when Amazon Web Services reported that it was “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

The company said a few hours later, that “most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now.”

With files from the Canadian Press.

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