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Breaking news overnight, a major global
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outage impacting so many popular
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websites and apps like Amazon, Alexa,
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Snapchat, Fortnite. Ran Alley starts us
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off with the latest developments. Good
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Hey, good morning to you, George. Yeah,
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if you were up late overnight wanting to
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watch some of your favorite shows or
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even if you had a flight to catch, you
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may have noticed a problem with many of
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your favorite apps thanks to a major
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outage taking down some really bigname
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favorites. Amazon Web Services, which is
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a leader in the cloud infrastructure
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market, reported the outage, citing an
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operational issue, saying around 2 a.m.
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East Coast time, that it was working to
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accelerate the recovery. According to
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the app that tracks problems like these,
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Down Detector, some of the sites
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affected that you mentioned, Amazon,
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Prime Video, Disney Plus, which is owned
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by the parent company of ABC, Lyft,
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McDonald's, Snapchat, United Airlines,
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Venmo, and Verizon. The list goes on and
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on. Some United and Delta customers even
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reported on social media they couldn't
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find their reservations online. They
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couldn't check in, they couldn't drop
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their bags. Other social media users
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cited problems with cloud-based games,
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including Roblox and Fortnite. AWS said
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it was seeing significant signs of
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recovery around 2:45 3:00 a.m. Eastern
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time, saying most of those sites should
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be back up and running. So, pretty much
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everything is restored this morning,
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guys. But it really shows you how many
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of these websites we use. But as of 5:00
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a.m., Angry Birds still was not up
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because I was up early this morning
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trying to play my Angry Birds before
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coming here, Rian. And so hopefully by
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the time we're through here, it'll be
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back online. Hopefully so.
