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“A MASSIVE CLOUD outage stemming from AWS key US-EAST-1 region, its hub in northern Virginia, near the US Capitol, caused widespread disruptions of websites and platforms around the world on Monday morning. Amazon's main ecommerce platform and other properties, including Ring doorbell and the Alexa smart assistant, suffered interruptions and outages throughout the morning, as did Meta's communication platform, WhatsApp, PayPal’s Venmo payment platform, multiple web services from Epic Games, multiple British government sites, and many others.”