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Millions of users across the internet have been affected due to a downtime in Amazon Web Services, the biggest cloud service on the planet.A series of applications and services rely on AWS to run their operations. But with AWS facing a major downtime, those apps and services have been duly impacted.Downdetector.com shows prominent services including Snapchat, Roblox, Canva, Perplexity and Amazon itself. Some of the other services that are affected include Fortnite, Gmail, Google, WhatsApp, YouTube and Asana. . Earlier in the day, hundreds of users reported downtime in popular graphic designing and presentation software Canva, which released a statement vowing to fix the issue as soon as possible..AWS is presently seeing widespread outage, which has primarily impacted its US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia data centre), which started in the early hours of Monday.This has led to increased error rates and latencies across multiple core services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, and others, causing disruptions to thousands of websites, apps, and platforms that rely on AWS infrastructure. The root cause of the disruption hasn't been officially disclosed yet, though there is no indication of a cyberattack or external interference.Amazon Web Services' health dashboard suggests over 50 of its services and operations have been impacted, while Amazon DynamoDB has been completely disrupted.Based on reports, it appears to be an operational or technical issue within the data center, such as network congestion, hardware failure, or a configuration error—common triggers for past AWS incidents. .Social Media & CommunicationsSnapchat, Gmail, Signal, Instagram, WhatsApp, Reddit, X, ZoomGamingRoblox, Epic Games, PlayStation, EA, Steam, Pokemon GO, Rocket League, PUBG, Fortnite, Clash of ClansTelecom & EntertainmentPrimeVideo, Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea, YouTube, Amazon Music