The world’s largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat.
The outage began at roughly 6pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEDT) on Monday. It was caused by a malfunction at one of AWS’ data centres located in Northern Virginia in the US. AWS says it has fixed the underlying issue but some internet users are still reporting service disruptions.
