Across the US, multiple states had disrupted services at Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices on Thursday in a "national outage" due to a loss in cloud connectivity. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nongovernmental group that provides software to DMV offices, said that the network that connects motor vehicle agencies across the United States to each other experienced an outage due to a loss in cloud connectivity and not because of software issues. The outage lasted from 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.

DMV offices across the country had issued warnings about the outage to locals on social media. The outage affected most driver's license services, including online options, but not driver's license knowledge tests, permit tests or requests for motor vehicle records. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page