Amazon’s internet infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has undergone a multi-hour outage on Wednesday which in turn has affected a large portion of the internet. The service was almost fully restored at around 4:18AM ET on Thursday morning, according to Amazon.
“We have restored all traffic to Kinesis Data Streams via all endpoints and it is now operating normally. We have also resolved the error rates invoking CloudWatch APIs,” reads an update on the AWS Service Health Dashboard. “We continue to work towards full recovery for IoT SiteWise and details of the service status is below. All other services are operating normally. We have identified the root cause of the Kinesis Data Streams event, and have completed immediate actions to prevent recurrence.” The message follows several updates related to the outage that began before noon on the eastern coast of the US.
Adobe was one of the first companies to report an all clear.
In an email interaction with the news source, Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services.
A lot of apps, services, and websites have posted on Twitter about how the AWS outage affected them which includes 1Password, Acorns, Adobe Spark, Anchor, Autodesk, Capital Gazette, Coinbase, DataCamp, Getaround, Glassdoor, Flickr, iRobot, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pocket, RadioLab, Roku, RSS Podcasting, Tampa Bay Times, Vonage, The Washington Post, and WNYC.
AWS is one of the most widely-used cloud computing services in the world, so any issues can have major ripple effects for other web services and apps, as evidenced by the number of companies affected by the outage.
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