Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

At about 4:30PM ET on October 20, things seemed to be returning back to normal. Apps like Venmo and Lyft, which were either ...

How the AWS outage hit people, from missed Starbucks orders to wonky Alexa alarms

An Amazon Web Services outage caused some consumers to go without their early morning Starbucks mobile order and Wordle.

AWS says its services are recovering amid outage that disrupted Snapchat, Perplexity, Alexa, and more

A major Amazon Web Services outage appears to have brought down many online services, including Snapchat and Perplexity.An AWS status page reports that more than 50 of its tools are affected by the ...
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Snapchat Down: AWS Outage Leads to Major Service Including Amzon, Roblox, Alexa, and Canva Interruptions

Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, Alexa, and Canva faced major downtime as Amazon Web Services suffered a global disruption, reports ...

AWS outage update: Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Reddit, more hit by massive outage

Amazon services, including Prime and Alexa, as well as other internet services including Snapchat, Roblox, Lyft, and more ...

Amazon Web Services are down globally: Takes down Perplexity, Snapchat, Alexa and more; here’s what the company has to say

A major AWS outage in the US-East-1 region disrupted global services including Perplexity, Snapchat, Alexa, Ring, Roblox, ...

Alexa Plus on the TV is made to save you from your phone

The company’s improved voice assistant can search for specific scenes, help you find out game scores, and more.
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Amazon is turning Alexa into a hands-free ChatGPT right before our eyes

During its Devices and Services event last week, Amazon announced plans to incorporate generative AI into its Alexa digital assistant. Alexa is arguably the most popular virtual assistant. Still ...