A disruption at Amazon Web Services today (Monday) temporarily affected major platforms including Robinhood and Coinbase, along with Snapchat, Perplexity AI, and Amazon’s own services, according to outage tracker Downdetector. The incident caused trading, social, and cloud-based applications to slow or become inaccessible for several hours. The disruption appeared to originate from Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, which supports a large share of the internet’s backend operations. By mid-morning in the United States, Downdetector recorded more than 2,000 reports of AWS-related outages. Users cited difficulties accessing ... (full story)