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Submission + - Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Signal, and more (theverge.com)

Submitted by united_notions on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:03AM

united_notions writes: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.

Submission + - Google explains Gmail troubles (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Slatterz on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @05:45PM

Slatterz writes: Google has apologised for the two and a half hour Gmail outage on Tuesday morning, and admitted that the cause was down to datacentre maintenance. "Lots of people around the world who rely on Gmail were disrupted during their waking and working hours, and we are very sorry. We did everything we could to restore access as soon as possible, and the issue is now resolved," said Gmail site reliability manager Acacio Cruz in a blog post. Google had been testing new code designed to keep data geographically closer to its owner, which brought about disruption when maintenance in one datacentre caused another facility to be overloaded. This had a cascade effect, according to Google, and it took the company an hour to get it back under control.

Comment If only... (Score 1) 254

by ds-x on Tuesday November 01, 2005 @03:28PM (#13925567) Attached to: Google DVRs and TV Advertising

If only there was some other company that tried this before. I wonder how that worked out for them...

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