Massive tech outage brings down Amazon, Prime Video, Snapchat, Perpexity and Venmo

A major outage hit multiple platforms including AWS, Amazon, Prime Video, Alexa, Snapchat, Robinhood, Perplexity and Venmo on Monday. Downdetector reported widespread disruptions, with Perplexity’s CEO stating the root cause was an issue within Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.

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