Amazon Web Services Appears to Be Down for Many Users -- Update
December 07 2021 - 12:44PM
Dow Jones News
By Omar Abdel-Baqui
Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud-computing unit appeared to be down for
thousands of users Tuesday morning.
Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than
11,300 reports of outages for Amazon Web Services just after 11
a.m. EST. The outages appeared to be concentrated in New York,
Washington and Chicago, according to Downdetector.
Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
AWS, in an update on its status dashboard, said it began
investigating increased error rates and console issues in the
US-East-1 region at around 11:20 a.m. EST. It said it had
identified the root cause of the issue, which was affecting its
global console landing page. "We are actively working towards
recovery," Amazon said.
The company said customers may be able to access consoles from
other regions. Consoles allow users to manage Amazon Web Services
and cloud computing tools.
By 11:50 a.m., outage reports on Downdetector had dipped
slightly to around 9,800.
AWS serves as a platform for many businesses, including The Wall
Street Journal. The service allows customers to rent computing,
storage and network capabilities.
Investing platform Public.com said a widespread AWS outage has
made its app unavailable. "We understand that this is frustrating
or even stressful for our members and will do all we can to help
keep you informed as AWS corrects the situation," the company
said.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 07, 2021 12:29 ET (17:29 GMT)
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