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Major sites and apps recover from Amazon Web Services outage

Major sites and apps recover from Amazon Web Services outage
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By Gareth VipersAmazon Web Services recovered Tuesday morning from a far-reaching outage that disrupted services from major retailers to airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more.Sites including Facebook, Snapchat and Amazon.com were unavailable early Monday, with financial services Coinbase, Robinhood and Venmo also reporting disruptions. The outage hit productivity tools such as Slack, some airlines including United Airlines, AI tool Perplexity and video games including Fortnite and Roblox .The AWS infrastructure unde...

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