
The outage is impacting user access to a wide variety of platforms.Īmazon’s web services are among the most widely used, including by the Canadian federal government. This would be the third outage for the company this year.ĪWS provides servers, storage, email and a number of other services to these platforms - effectively keeping large parts of the internet running. Midday Tuesday, Downdetector - a website that tracks outages - showed more than 24,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Amazon. Those services, including the main AWS management console, appeared to return to normal a couple of hours later. On Tuesday night, the company’s service health dashboard said was is in the process of recovering impaired services after resolving the key issues behind the outage.

But the company has yet to fully explain what exactly went wrong.

and Canada, but still impacted everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services to Amazon’s own massive e-commerce operation.Īmazon said earlier Tuesday the outage was likely due to issues related to application programming interface (API), which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software, and said it was working to resolve the issue. The incident at Amazon’s cloud computing network mostly affected the eastern U.S.

Send this page to someone via email emailĪmazon Web Services (AWS) says it has resolved the network device issues behind a widespread outage that impacted websites and services for universities, governments and companies for hours Tuesday.
