Amazon Web Services (#AWS) went down earlier today and took many important services across the internet down with it. Several fixes have been deployed, though outages are still affecting a swath of services. Collectively reports on Downdetector hit a high of over 50,000 reports starting around 7:50 am. For the unaware, AWS is crucial backbone of the internet acting as infrastructre for apps and websites the likes of Snapchat, Venmo, Ring, Pokémon GO and more are also down because of AWS’ outage.