A major outage on Tuesday disrupted Amazon’s cloud services, temporarily knocking down streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, a wide range of apps and Amazon.com Inc.’s e-commerce website, Because consumers made purchases before Christmas.
“Many services have already recovered, although we are working towards full recovery across all services,” Amazon said on its status dashboard.
Amazon’s Ring security cameras, mobile banking app Chime and robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot, which uses Amazon Web Services (AWS), reported issues, according to its social media pages.
Trading app Robinhood and Walt Disney’s streaming service Disney+ and Netflix were also down, according to downdetector.com.
“Netflix, which runs almost all of its infrastructure on AWS, has lost 26% of its traffic,” said Doug Madory, head of internet analysis at analytics firm Kentik.
Amazon said the outage was related to network devices and was linked to the Application Programming Interface, or API, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
Downdetector.com showed more than 24,000 incidents of people reporting problems with Amazon, including Prime Video and other services. The outage tracking website collates status reports on its platform from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors.
Users started reporting issues around 10:40 am on Tuesday and the outage may have affected a large number of users.
Amazon has experienced 27 outages in the past 12 months related to its services, according to ToolTester, a website that reviews web tools.
In June, websites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, PayPal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the New York Times were hit by widespread hour-long outages involving US-based content delivery network provider Fastly Inc., a smaller rival of AWS. I had arrived. ,
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.
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