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Jason England

AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet

Venmo, Amazon and AWS logos.

In the early morning hours of October 20, Amazon Web Services suffered from what became a multihour outage that affected a multitude of websites, apps and platforms. Throughout the day several fixes were deployed though outages continued to affect a wideswath of services from banking apps to college instructional platforms and more.

Collectively, reports on Downdetector hit a high of over 50,000 reports starting around 7:50 am.

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