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.
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.
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.