An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch.The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.It started with an error in its Domain Name System at Amazon’s Virginia data center. Its oldest and largest data plant is located in so-called “Data Center Alley,” alongside hundreds of other pow ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: AWS handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites around the world. Many popular internet services, from streaming platforms to messaging services and some banks, went offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network. The disruption affe ...