63,000 Websites Hit With Outages As Users Report Amazon Web Service Issues
Preliminary reports from Pingdom AB, a Swedish website monitoring company, show more than 63,000 websites are experiencing issues worldwide. At the same time, Downdetector reports users are experiencing problems with Amazon Web Services.
REPORTS INDICATE THERE MAY BE A WIDESPREAD OUTAGE AT AMAZON WEB SERVICES, WHICH MAY BE IMPACTING SERVICE- DOWNDETECTOR
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Pingdom shows 63,671 websites are experiencing issues on Wednesday morning.
Downdetector shows AWS problems are being reported on the Eastern US half.
Downdetector shows Twitch, Doordash, Facebook, Hulu, Slack, and Netflix are experiencing issues.
However, no outages have been reported on AWS’ status dashboard.
The fragility of the internet has been on full display this fall. Just last month, a technical issue at Google Cloud Networking led to tens of thousands of website outages.
*This story is developing…
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Wed, 12/15/2021 – 10:46
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