Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit experienced an outage that lasted several hours and affected many other sites and services on Wednesday. As reported by The Verge, an Amazon spokesperson explained in an email that only one of its 23 AWS geographic regions (US-East-1) was having issues at the time. However, the outage was significant enough to take down many other online sites and services that rely on the company's cloud computing arm. The list of apps, services, and websites affected by the outage includes 1Password, Coinbase, Flickr, Glassdoor, Roku, Vonage, Autodesk, and others. However, the main AWS customers Apple, Slack and Netflix do not appear to be affected.
AWS failure
On the Amazon side, the outage affected many AWS services, including ACM, Amplify Console, AppStream2, AppSync, Athena, Batch, CodeArtifact, CodeGuru Profiler, CodeGuru Reviewer, CloudFormation, CloudMap, CloudTrail, Connect, Comprehend, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, EventBridge, GuardDuty, IoT Services, Lambda, LEX, Macie, Managed Blockchain, Marketplace, MediaLive, MediaConvert, Personalize, RDS Performance Insights, Rekognition, SageMaker, and Workspaces. In an update to its AWS Service Health dashboard, the cloud computing giant explained that the issue affecting its Kinesis Data Streams API and other dependent services has been resolved, though it still won't fully load. traffic, saying: “We would like to provide you with an update on the issue affecting the Kinesis Data Streams API and other dependent services in the US-EAST-1 region. We have now fully mitigated the impact on the Kinesis subsystem, which is responsible for handling incoming requests, and we no longer see an increase in latencies or error rates. However, we are not taking the full traffic load yet and we are working to release demand levers on the service. Over the next few hours, we plan to release these drivers to the previous levels. We expect customers to start to see a pickup as these drivers are released during this time. "Sites and services that rely on AWS should be up and running as normal now and luckily the outage didn't come a few days later on Black Friday as it would have been quite disruptive to online retail sites during what should be one of the most important shopping days of this year Via The Verge