AWS down: Perplexity, Snapchat, Canva, Microsoft 365, Hinge and all the top websites affected by massive outage

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) issue has led to many of the popular services like Perplexity, Canva, Amazon, Fortnite, Microsoft 365, and others to come to a standstill. As per Downdetector, there have been over 1,100 reports of the AWS outage reported on the platform in India alone. Meanwhile, over 5,000 reports have been reported in the US.

​Most complaints are from US-EAST-1, while 16% each are from US-WEST-1 and US-WEST-2.

​AWS has confirmed the issue on a status page, stating, “We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the…