The world's largest cloud giant Amazon Web Services has experienced an outage, according to a post on the service's website. "We can confirm increased errors and delays in several AWS services," the company said.

A number of popular websites and applications, including Snapchat, Facebook and the online game Fortnite, were disrupted due to a worldwide outage, CNN reports. According to the Downdetector service, which tracks Internet failures, the malfunctions were also observed at Amazon's services - Amazon.com, Prime Video and Alexa voice assistant. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and trading service Robinhood reported that the AWS outage affected their services, while artificial intelligence startup Perplexity said the problems disrupted the stability of its website, Bloomberg noted.

An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company is looking into the glitch, but declined to comment further.

Amazon shares were down 0.2% in the premarket on Oct. 20. Snapchat shares, on the contrary, were up 1.3%. Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram) shares were up 0.4%, Coinbase was up 3.2% and Robinhood was up 3.7%.

Amazon Web Services is the most popular cloud service in the world, with its infrastructure powering much of the Internet, Bloomberg wrote. AWS holds about a third of the cloud market, hence every failure has significant consequences, the agency added.

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