Amazon Web Services outage is affecting major sites and apps

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If you’re having trouble with some websites and apps at the minute, you’re far from the only one. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers a huge number of internet services, is in the midst of an outage in one of its regions.DownDetector, which tracks issues affecting online services, saw a significant increase in AWS outage reports from users on Wednesday morning. The site saw similar spikes for

other services, including various Amazon platforms, Pokémon Go and Roku. Other companies — such as Flickr, Adobe and Anchor — took to Twitter to report issues with their platforms. The New York City Transit Authority was unable to update a subway line alert due to the outage. DownDetector The AWS status dashboard perhaps isn’t the most reliable source of information about the outage at the minute — Amazon says the problem has affected its ability to provide updates there. “Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that’s impacted some other AWS services,” Amazon told The Verge. “We are working toward resolution.”

Author: Kris Holt

Date: 2020-11-25

URL: https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-180852407.html

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