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AWS confirms service outage as major websites and apps go down worldwide

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Amazon has confirmed that services have been affected, and says it has now identified the issue. Photo: Chesnot/ Getty Images
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Hameed Shuja

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The issue seems to have affected some of the world’s most famous website and major apps.

Dozens of major websites and apps across the world were down early Monday due to an outage caused by technical issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

On its service health portal, AWS, one of the world’s largest cloud services providers, said: “We can confirm increased error rates and latenciesregions

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