Amazon Web Services Faces Major Outage
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Amazon experienced a massive outage affecting its e-commerce platform, AWS, and Alexa, impacting numerous third-party services like Snapchat and Venmo. Engineers identified a DNS issue as the root cause and are deploying fixes.
Amazon discovered that groceries and household staples are some of the company’s most ordered items. So the company is expanding same-day grocery delivery to 1,000 cities and towns. Amazon plans to more than double that number by the end of the year.
The e-commerce giant has launched a new feature on its app called "Add to Delivery," a button that allows customers to add additional items to a delivery for an order that has already been placed.