Snapchat is down — and it probably isn't alone! [Update]What you need to know
Users are reporting issues signing into Snapchat.
Amazon Web Services may be suffering another outage.
AWS, you OK over there?
Update, December 11 (04:30 am ET): Amazon confirms that AWS did not suffer an outage and this issue was purely a Snapchat one.
Update, December 10 (04:20 pm ET): Snapchat says that it has resolved the issue.
A ton of Snapchat users are reporting that they can't get the photo and video-sharing service to work, with Downdetector reporting problems from around 08:30 EST. It isn't immediately clear whether Snapchat is the only service impacted, but it seems unlikely given the number of web-wide failures we've seen of late.
The last time we saw a similar outage it was caused by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) failure, and sure enough, AWS has its own problems — again according to Downdetector. However, at the time of writing the AWS health dashboard does not report any issues at all.
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Snapchat is down — and it probably isn't alone! [Update]
