Snapchat Not Working After AWS Outage? Here’s What You Should Do

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your Snapchat suddenly stopped loading messages or failed to send snaps, you are not alone. The issue isn’t just with your phone -- a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted several popular apps and websites globally including Snapchat, Canva, Reddit, Signal, Slack and even essential services like banking and telecom platforms.

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The outage, which started on Monday affected AWS’s US-East-1 region, one of the company’s busiest data hubs that handles a large portion of internet traffic across North America and parts of Europe and Asia. Talking specifically about the DownDetector stats, around 15000 AWS users were affected due to the outage.AWS is the cloud backbone for many popular apps, including Snapchat, Instagram Threads, Slack and several financial and telecom services. When AWS faces a problem, it often triggers a chain reaction that affects dozens of apps at once. During this latest AWS downtime, users across the US, UK and India reported outages on social media.ALSO READ: What Led To The 15-Hour AWS Outage — And Could It Happen Again? Snapchat was one of the apps hit hardest. Many users complained that messages weren’t loading, snaps wouldn’t send,and Stories failed to refresh. Since Snapchat relies on AWS’s cloud servers for most of its data handling and message delivery, any disruption in AWS infrastructure can immediately impact the app’s performance.AWS engineers have since restored most of the affected services but Snapchat users may continue to face slowdowns or temporary connectivity errors as systems gradually stabilise.

If your Snapchat is still not working, here’s what you can do:

- First, restart the app or restart your phone to clear any temporary glitches. - Check Snapchat’s official status page or Downdetector to see if the problem is still ongoing.READ - AWS Outage: Canva, Snapchat Roblox And More Face Massive Outage In India And Globally: Full List Of Services That Went Down - Switching from Wi-Fi to mobile data (or vice versa) can also help, as network routing stabilises post-outage. If that doesn’t work, clear the app cache or reinstall Snapchat to reset your connection to its servers.