Amazon Web Services seeing widespread outages, impacting major websites: reports
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AWS provides servers, storage, email and a number of other services to these platforms -- effectively keeping large parts of the internet running.
Amazon Web Services is facing a major outage that’s impacting websites and services for universities, governments and companies, according to The Associated Press.
The Associated Press is also impacted by the outage, they said in a tweet. Downdetector — a website that tracks outages — showed more than 14,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Amazon.
“We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region,” Amazon said in a report on its service health dashboard, adding that it has identified the cause and was working to resolve the issue.
This would be the third outage for the company this year.
AWS provides servers, storage, email and a number of other services to these platforms — effectively keeping large parts of the internet running. The outage is impacting user access to a wide variety of platforms.
— with files from Reuters, The Associated Press