Source: Hayato Huseman / Android Central
Snapchat and several other platforms have reportedly been down in North America, but the issue seems largely resolved.
Many Snapchat users would not have been able to sign in or would have continued to sign out of the app. The problem appeared to be with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has also suffered from increasing outages and also powers many affected platforms.
One of the affected platforms was Zoom. According to Down Detector, one of the best conferencing apps for Android has also experienced an increasing number of crashes.
Zoom’s official status page indicates that the platform has experienced degraded performance in meetings and video webinars. The company claims to have identified a network issue and resolved all issues related to video calling.
We fixed an issue preventing users from starting and joining Zoom meetings and webinars.
Meanwhile, the official AWS status page indicates that the service has experienced connection issues, which may have affected other sites. The network seems to be back in great shape:
Between 7:46 a.m. and 11:37 a.m. PDT, we experienced request timeouts and increased latencies when trying to sign in to the AWS Management Console using SAML federation. We continue to investigate probable root causes and continue to seek a full resolution. The service is functioning normally
The outage comes just a day after a Fastly outage took down many popular websites including Amazon, CNN, Reddit, Spotify, and more.
Meanwhile, Snapchat and other related services appear to be back in working order as well, although this could serve as a lesson in the fickleness of cloud services.
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