What Happened? This morning, a major global internet outage  shook the online world — disrupting popular apps and websites like Snapchat, Amazon, Fortnite, Ring, Duolingo , and even banking apps  in the UK. The cause? A failure at Amazon Web Services (AWS)  — one of the largest cloud service providers on the planet. The issue originated in their US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia)  data region, causing “increased error rates and latency” across multiple systems. For a brief moment,