AWS outage hits companys own services
October 16, 2020
Sites like The Washington Post and Roku, as well as Amazon’s own services, were affected
AWS - the backbone of many online services - experienced a major outage last night, with service only restored at 9:18am GMT on Thursday. Although the multi-hour outage only affected one of AWS’s 23 global regions (US-East-1), it affected many services and sites, including Coinbase, Flickr, Glass