An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted the operation of several online sites worldwide.
This is a remote service that provides storage, databases, or artificial intelligence to companies that request it.
Snapchat, Prime Video, Canva, and McDonald's are among the affected entities, due to their reliance on IT services provided by Amazon's cloud platform.
Governments, universities, and organizations are also among Amazon Web Services' customers. In the United States, more than 2,000 outage reports have been filed.
According to Amazon, the problem originated from malfunctions in the Domain Name System (DNS). This system converts web addresses into IP addresses to facilitate website loading on connected devices.
The malfunction has been "fully resolved," the American giant announced, but it brings back to the forefront the debate on outsourcing all or part of infrastructure to companies.
In July 2024, a failure of CrowdStrike software on Windows disrupted the operation of airport and hospital infrastructure worldwide.
The failure affected more than 8 million devices, according to Microsoft.
