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by soco 1652 days ago
And Netflix.
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And Venmo, and McDonald's, and....

This one is pretty epic (pun intended). Bad enough that Down Detector [0] shows "Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, which may be impacting your service." in a red alert bar at the top.

[0] - https://downdetector.com/

I'm surprised Netflix is down. They are multi-region: https://netflixtechblog.com/active-active-for-multi-regional...
It occurs to me that it's very nice that Netflix, Youtube, and other streaming services tend to be on separate infrastructure so they don't all go down at once