Amazon 's web-hosting subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, was experiencing major issues on Tuesday.- The outage appeared to affect major streaming services including Disney+ and Netflix.
Amazon's web-hosting subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, appeared to have suffered a major outage on Tuesday morning.
Reports on $4 indicated widespread issues with
Oher digital services, from the crypto-trading service CoinDesk to the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen, were also experiencing outages as a result of AWS issues. Additionally, some major online games including "Valorant" and "League of Legends" appeared to be experiencing issues.
Amazon confirmed the outage and said on the $4 that it was "investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console."
Amazon also said the outage was regional, applying to "US-EAST-1 Region" servers, which are housed in Virginia. Amazon later said it had discovered what was causing issues and was "actively working towards recovering."
Beyond third-party services, the outage caused major issues for Amazon's Ring smart-home systems, Alexa speakers, and Prime music- and video-streaming services.
Ring owners on social media detailed the kinds of issues they were experiencing, saying their doorbells weren't working or that they'd lost a video feed used for monitoring infants during naptime.
"Eek, just in time for my newly-in-beds triplet toddlers' nap," $4. "Now I have no idea what they're doing up there."
AWS supports huge sections of the internet, and any outages — $4 — have ripple effects that can cause dozens of services to go down.
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