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The Latest on the AWS Problems Afflicting the Internet
The Latest on the AWS Problems Afflicting the Internet
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An outage at Amazon Web Services today caused problems for popular websites like Disney, Smartsheet, Canva and other internet services — including some used here at dot.LA. The problem, which got close to a resolution by early afternoon, even caused some Amazon deliveries to stall. Read more >>
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On Amazon, the problem has manifested in a variety of ways, making it difficult for some users to purchase items, call up their order history, and even log into Amazon’s special website for COVID-19 test results. As of 2:30 p.m., Pacific Time, technicians said they seeing "significant recovery in the US-EAST-1 Region" but the company had not yet "have an ETA for full recovery at this time."
This story originally appeared on GeekWire.
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