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Another Amazon outage takes down Slack, Epic Games and more

Some other Amazon outage takes downwardly Slack, Epic Games and more

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Amazon Web Services suffered another widespread outage today (Dec. 22), in the tertiary such instance this month.

"We are investigating increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity problems for some instances in a unmarried Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-ane Region," read a post on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Wellness Dashboard at 7:35 a.m. Eastern time. "Other Availability Zones inside the United states of america-Eastward-one Region are not afflicted by this issue."

The problem was blamed on "a loss of power inside a unmarried data eye." Ability was said to be restored by viii:39 a.yard. Eastern time, and affected services "should exist starting to see recovery." A ix:51 a.thou. update said that "the bulk of AWS services have also recovered."

Online companies reporting service problems included Slack and Epic Games, while Downwardly Detector showed users reporting trouble with Grindr, Hulu, McDonald's and DoorDash, among others, although it wasn't clear whether all those issues were acquired by an AWS outage.

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Some of those impacted services appeared to be recovering by nine:30 a.chiliad. Eastern time, according to Down Detector. However, Slack reported 5 minutes after that "issues with file uploads are ongoing," so at x:06 a.grand. Eastern thanked its users "for sticking with us as we continue to work towards a fix."

According to Statista, AWS comprises 32% of the unabridged worldwide cloud-infrastructure market.

AWS had similar issues on December. vii, when one of its servers in the eastern U.S. went down, and once again on December. fifteen, when the problem was traced to a West Coast server. Today'southward snafu, as indicated above, seems to prevarication with another Eastern-region server.

The bug seemed to accept been more broad-ranging in the previous two AWS outages, affecting Disney Plus, Netflix, Sony'due south PlayStation Network and Amazon'southward own Prime Video, Alexa, Band Video Doorbell services and even delivery-driver navigation.

However, a Reddit thread indicated that some of those services were affected this time also.

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Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom's Guide focused on security and privacy. He has also been a dishwasher, fry cook, long-booty commuter, code monkey and video editor. He's been rooting effectually in the information-security infinite for more than than 15 years at FoxNews.com, SecurityNewsDaily, TechNewsDaily and Tom's Guide, has presented talks at the ShmooCon, DerbyCon and BSides Las Vegas hacker conferences, shown up in random TV news spots and even chastened a panel discussion at the CEDIA habitation-technology conference. Y'all can follow his rants on Twitter at @snd_wagenseil.

Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/amazon-web-services-down-yet-again

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