Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.
It has also affected the
ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.
"Kinesis has been
experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that's
impacted some other AWS services. We are working toward resolution," an
AWS spokesperson said in a statement.
Amazon Kinesis, a part of
its cloud offerings, collects, processes and analyzes real-time data and offers
insights.
Video-streaming device
maker Roku Inc, Adobe's Spark platform, video-hosting website Flickr and the
Baltimore Sun newspaper were among those hit by the outage, according to their
recent posts on Twitter.
"We are experiencing
intermittent issues with our website and publishing system because of the AWS
outage," the newspaper tweeted
https://twitter.com/baltimoresun/status/1331649925373890561.
Amazon's cloud service
business is thriving on higher demand from companies switching to virtual
offices due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Sales from AWS, which sells
data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose about 29% in the third
quarter.
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