Amazon Cloud Goes Offline Causing Disruptions Across the Web

[kreslik.news]

The cloud hosting services of Amazon have been affected by downtime, causing much of the world wide web to malfunction. Several websites have been affected by the outage with the company stating that it is “actively working on remediating the issue.”

The company’s webs services are amongst the most widely adopted. Amazon is reporting “high error rates” in a particular section of its S3 web services, which is cascading onto other services of the company. Various web services appear to be most affected in the US East region.

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