“The Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-priced infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world”, the AWS website says.
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At its worst, about 31 services were affected including Netflix, Nest, Reddit, Medium, IMDB, Social Flow, and Amazon’s own Alexa and Instant Video services, among many others.
The outage began at approximately 6:00 a.m. EDT, according to the website the Next Web.
Reports started appearing on Sunday morning after an AWS status page noted DynamoDB database issues at its US-East data centre complex in Ashburn, Virgina – which is the company’s oldest public-cloud facility.
Amazon Web Services’ Twitter account has yet to acknowledge the issue, but you can keep track of the health status at its dashboard here.
The issues continued until midday, Eastern Time, with the database service still showing increased error rates responding to Application Programming Interface (API) calls. CloudWatch, a monitoring system for the application that runs on AWS and Cognito, a mobile data based service, also had problems alongside DynamoDB.
However, Amazon had to to throttle APIs to recover the service.
AWS has been hit with technical difficulties before. In 2013, the same outage occurred that affected Instagram, Airbnb, and Vine. It was unclear how costly the outages Sunday would be.
The 2013 crash lasted for 40 minutes and Buzzfeed reported that the company lost about $1,104 in average net sales per second during that time.
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Amazon has data centers around the globe, which are used by companies for their information technology needs.
