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A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services caused significant disruptions across a variety of popular applications and platforms that rely on the cloud provider. The incident affected services ranging from Amazon's own Alexa to third‑party apps such as Venmo, Snapchat, and Fortnite. AWS identified a DNS resolution issue affecting its DynamoDB API, which led to increased error rates and latency in the US‑East‑1 region. The company announced that the underlying problem had been mitigated, but some services continued to experience elevated errors, particularly with new EC2 instance launches. The outage highlighted the reliance of many internet services on a single cloud infrastructure and sparked concerns about resilience and redundancy. Ler mais

A severe outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted a broad swath of internet services on a crisp October morning. The incident stemmed from a DNS resolution problem affecting the DynamoDB API in the US‑East‑1 region, leading to increased error rates and latency across multiple AWS services. Popular platforms such as Venmo, Snapchat, Canva, Fortnite, Alexa, Lyft, Reddit, Disney+, and many others experienced partial or complete outages. AWS identified the issue, applied mitigations, and eventually restored most services, though new EC2 instance launches remained rate‑limited for some time. The outage highlighted the extensive reliance on AWS infrastructure across the digital ecosystem. Ler mais

PayPal announced a partnership with Perplexity that gives PayPal and Venmo users an invite to Perplexity’s AI‑powered Comet browser and a free year of Perplexity Pro, normally priced at $200 per year. The offer, available through the apps, includes one invite per PayPal account and excludes existing Pro subscribers. The deal builds on earlier collaborations that let users checkout instantly via AI‑driven searches and introduces a new subscriptions hub that helps users manage recurring payments, with a promotion that pays $50 to customers who link and pay for at least three subscriptions. Ler mais

PayPal and its mobile‑payment arm Venmo are rolling out a promotion that gives U.S. users a free 12‑month subscription to Perplexity Pro, the AI‑enhanced service from the NVIDIA‑ and Bezos‑backed startup. The deal also grants access to Perplexity’s new Comet browser, which embeds the company’s AI as the default search engine and runs on Chromium. Users can claim the offer through the PayPal or Venmo apps, and a $50 credit is available for linking three subscriptions via PayPal’s new subscription hub. The promotion runs through the end of the year, after which the Pro plan auto‑renews at the standard rate. Ler mais