Everything was down today due to a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers a significant portion of the internet. This outage affected over 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, causing disruptions to many major websites and apps including Snapchat, Roblox, Reddit, Fortnite, banks, airlines, and more. The issue involved a failure in AWS's service responsible for translating user-friendly web addresses (DNS service), which prevented connections to many online services. The outage lasted several hours, with impacts felt especially on the US East Coast and affecting services globally. AWS has since restored services and is expected to provide a full explanation of the cause later.