As consumers shopped ahead of Christmas, a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) led to temporarily knock out streaming platform Netflix, Disney +, Robinhood, various apps, and Amazon.com Inc e-commerce websites. “Many services have already recovered, however, we are working towards full recovery across services,” Amazon said on its status dashboard. AWS had suffered a widespread outage Tuesday night causing higher loading times or failures for a significant part of the internet.
The tech giant on Tuesday had said, “We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates. We have identified the root cause and are actively working towards recovery.”
Trading app Robinhood and Walt Disney’s streaming service Disney+ and Netflix were also down, according to Downdetector.com. Doug Madory, head of internet analysis at analytics firm Kentik, said, “Netflix which runs nearly all of its infrastructure on AWS appears to have lost 26% of its traffic.” Amazon said the outage was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface, or API, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software, Reuters reported.
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