AWS outage: Amazon Prime, Alexa, Snapchat, more reportedly down or impacted

Amazon services, including Prime and Alexa, as well as other internet services including Snapchat, Roblox, Lyft, and more appear to be disrupted, according to Downdetector.

The reported issues began shortly after 3 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector.

Amazon Web Services' status page first reported the issue at 3:11 a.m. ET and confirmed engineers were investigating the ongoing issue as of 4:26 a.m. ET.

Many sites and services rely on AWS to operate, which can cause a ripple effect across the internet when disrupted.

(Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which also owns Mashable.)

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