Oct 20 (Reuters) -

Amazon ( AMZN ) said on Monday its cloud services unit AWS was hit by

an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across

the world including Snapchat and Robinhood.

"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for

multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS said in an

update on its status page.

AI startup Perplexity and cryptocurrency exchange

Coinbase attributed the outages to AWS.

"Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS

issue. We're working on resolving it," Perplexity CEO Aravind

Srinivas said in a post on X.

AWS and Amazon ( AMZN ) did not respond to a request for comment.

Amazon.com ( AMZN ), PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues,

according to Downdetector. Paypal's ( PYPL ) Venmo was also

facing issues.

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb

Chakrabarty)