Amazon Web Services (AWS), down for thousands worldwide users as of Thursday morning. It is the second time that the service has gone down in the past week.
Amazon’s Amazon platform was experiencing difficulties around 10:30 AM ET. Customers cite issues with their website, server, and hosting.
Only a handful of countries (including the US, China, the UK, and India) have reported any problems. This is far less than the impact last week’s outage had.
Amazon Web Services crashed for seven hours December 9. It also took down several other sites that were using the cloud servers of the company.
However, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows Doordash, Netflix, and Twitch are experiences problems – and they all use Amazon Web Services to host their websites.
Amazon Web Services crashed for thousands worldwide users on Thursday morning. It is now the second crash in as many weeks.
AWS’ service health dashboards show internet connectivity issues in northern California and Oregon, but DownDetector’s outage map highlights New York City and Boston as also experiencing problems.
On the status page, a message reads: “We are investigating Internet connectivity issues in the US-WEST-1 or US-WEST-2 region.”
AWS provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies around the world.
If it is down, all other websites using its services will go down. This is embarrassing news for Amazon, as these sites, universities and governments are required to pay to access the services.