Amazon Web Services Suffers Widespread Problems With Online Applications

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A massive cloud computing operation reported errors with a key data streaming platform Wednesday morning as online applications suffered in the United States. Amazon Web Services reported issues with its Kinesis service, which helps online services deliver real-time data at 9:36 a.m. Eastern Time. time. About an hour later, AWS displayed a banner atop its Service health dashboard saying the issue had spread to other services and that it “also affected our ability to post updates on the service health dashboard.” At 12:12 a.m. EST, Amazon said on the site that it was “continuing to work on a resolution.” The problems stemmed from the company’s central hub in the eastern United States, in northern Virginia; an issue with the AWS S3 service in this installation in 2017 caused widespread outages for popular online services. The website downdetector.com, which tracks online services, reported issues with several popular offerings on Wednesday morning, including the popular “League of Legends” video game, Sirius XM satellite radio, and the Amazon-owned Ring doorbell system. . At the last check, Amazon shares were up almost 2%. On the other hand, shares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
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and Alphabet Inc. GOOG,
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which run competing cloud services Azure and GCP respectively, were both down slightly at last check. Several attempts to contact Amazon for comment have yet to be returned.

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