<\/span>Other notable platforms \/ apps<\/span><\/h3>\nGlobally and in the UK, many high-profile platforms and services saw outages or degraded performance:<\/p>\n
\n- Snapchat<\/strong> \u2014 went down in many regions. (AP News<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Fortnite<\/strong>, Roblox<\/strong> and other gaming platforms faced disruptions. (Reuters<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Chat \/ messaging<\/strong> platforms: Signal<\/strong> confirmed that AWS issues affected their service. (Reuters<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Trading \/ crypto apps<\/strong>: Coinbase<\/strong>, Robinhood<\/strong> had outages or disruptions pointing to AWS root cause. (Reuters<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Amazon\u2019s own services<\/strong> (Prime Video, Alexa, Amazon.com) also experienced failures, latency, or downtime. (Reuters<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Other platforms \/ tools<\/strong>: Slack, Zoom, Canva, Duolingo, Wordle, Apple Music, etc. \u25cf Wordle in particular was reported as down even after initial remediation. (Tom’s Guide<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Perplexity<\/strong> (AI startup) tweeted their service was down, attributing to AWS issues. (Al Jazeera<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Because many services rely on AWS in the backend (hosting, APIs, databases, serverless infrastructure), even if the front-end or app seems independent, dependencies get exposed during such outages.<\/p>\n
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