Amazon experienced issues with its cloud computing services Tuesday afternoon that affected websites across the United States.
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Amazon’s status site reported issues – “high error rates” – with its East Coast S3 center and said the company was working to resolve the problems.
It’s unclear what’s causing the problem, but AWS did say on its website that it’s experiencing “increased error rates”.
Notably, Netflix’s streaming service remained available, despite the fact that Netflix is making heavy use of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure as well.
Amazon Web Services is the largest internet cloud service provider in the world and is part of the company that operates the online shopping site by the same name. While the more notable disruptions included limited functionality of sites like the Verge and total inaccessibility of services like Xero Accounting, many smaller services like smart home systems and school content were also affected. The sites that are appearing to be offline because of this Amazon issue include Trello, Quora, IFTTT, and Splitwise.
As of 4:50 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the internet was still malfunctioning.
The apps and websites were back to normal once the AWS S3 division was back online.
“It’s a temporary black eye from a customer standpoint”, he said, noting that Amazon’s customers will not go through the hassle of switching to a competing cloud service because of a one-time event.
This is certainly not the first time that Amazon web Services have run into issues.
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Many Internet users were left in the dark on what the problem actually was because Amazon’s website showed no sign of an issue. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but scores of companies rely on AWS, meaning both service complaints and memes mocking the outage were in ready supply.
