Amazon Web Services has been hit with a worldwide outage, impacting dozens websites that use the company’s cloud hosting service.
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Amazon Web Services began experiencing problems around 2:56 pm ET, taking out other websites like IMDB, McDonald’s and OkCupid.
The e-commerce giant’s purchasing platform, music and virtual assistant Alexa are also experiencing problems.
Amazon Web Services has been hit with a worldwide outage impacting hundreds of websites that use the company’s cloud-hosting service
Reports first indicated Amazon Web Services (AWS) was experiencing issues, but other websites began to follow one by one.
Along with commerce sites, video games like Fornite, PUBG Battlegrounds and Dead by Daylight are offline.
AWS’ service health dashboard shows ‘degradation’ among four services: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway and Amazon Connect.
The issues appear to stem from an endpoint at a datacenter in Virginia.
AWS provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies worldwide, such as servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development and security.
When AWS goes down, so do other websites that use its services, which is an embarrassing blow to the Amazon-owned platform – these companies, universities, individuals and governments pay to use the services.
Amazon Web Services began experiencing problems around 2:56 pm ET, taking out other websites like IMDB, McDonald’s and OkCupid
AWS has not acknowledged the outage on its social media platforms, but provides this message on the health dashboard: ‘We are continuing to experience increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region.
‘We have identified the root cause as an issue with AWS Lambda, and are actively working toward resolution.’
However, AWS Support responded to a frustrated user on Twitter who tweeted that AWS console was down.
‘Sorry for the trouble & any concerns this has caused, Gabriel. I can confirm we’re currently investigating the increased error rates and latencies. Feel free to refer to the AWS Health Dashboard to view further,’ the reply tweet reads.
