World News – USA – AWS outage has destroyed much of the Internet

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s Internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage that affects a large portion of the Internet.

« Kinesis detected increased error rates in our US East-1 region this morning that impacted some other AWS services, » Amazon said in a statement to The Verge. « We work on a solution. And ironically, Amazon said in a notice on the AWS Service Health Dashboard that the issue appears to have « affected our ability to post updates on that dashboard. ».

It seems the problem is pretty widespread as a number of apps and services have posted on Twitter how the AWS outage affected them, including Roku, Flickr, Adobe Spark, and Spotify’s own Anchor.

We’re working to fix this quickly. We are affected by the widespread AWS outage and hope to get our customers up and running soon. Most of the streaming should work as expected during this time.

[Status] Identified: Members receive an « Oops, something went wrong » error when trying to sign in or create an account due to a recent AWS outage. We are monitoring the situation and will continue to exchange information here as soon as this … https: // t. co / drGhoVfYMv

An outage of Amazon AWS is currently affecting Adobe Spark, so you may have problems accessing / editing your projects. We are actively working with AWS and will report back when the problem subsides. https: // t. co / uoHPf44HjL for the current Spark status. We apologize for any inconvenience!

Hello, yes, Anchor is currently down due to a temporary AWS service outage. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please note that we are working to get the website back up and running as soon as possible. We will make an announcement as soon as this is fixed.

@RSS is one of the companies affected by the AWS system outage. Login and uploads are not processed. Delivery and distribution of all consequences remain unaffected. Public podcast sites are also available. New uploads will resume once the problem is resolved.

Hello. Due to the widespread outage of Amazon AWS, we are currently unable to remove the A-Line Service Alert from our website and app. Trains no longer run locally in Brooklyn. We will continue to post updates here as soon as we have them.

Unfortunately. Our payment processor (paddle) is currently having problems (apparently due to AWS). . Hopefully we’ll be back online soon.

AWS is one of the most widely used cloud computing services in the world. As a result, issues can have a significant impact on other web services and apps. For example, a 2017 outage affected companies like Trello, Quora and IFTTT.

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