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Amazon Web Services Outage Affects Services Across The Internet
Hundreds of users have flagged the outage, AWS' third in as many weeks, which is affecting a variety of internet services.
ACROSS AMERICA — An Amazon Web Services outage affecting a wide variety of internet sites occurred Wednesday morning, according to the tracking site DownDetector.
The outage began around 7 a.m. Eastern time.
The online site Tech Radar reported the outage, AWS' third in as many weeks, "appears to have been caused by loss of power in a single data center."
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Some of the services affected by the AWS outage were Coinbase, Fortnite, Hulu, Instacart, Rocket League, Acadly, Peloton, Hinge, Quora, the Epic Games Store, Slack, GitHub rival Bitbucket, Samsung Smart Lights, Asana and Imgur.
Amazon said in a statement at 8:39 a.m. Eastern time it had "restored power to all instances and network devices within the affected data center" and that network connectivity had returned to normal.
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Amazon said "all services are starting to see meaningful recovery," including hosting services.
In early December, Amazon experienced a significant outage in its northern Virginia (US-East-1) region that knocked out everything from Disney+ to its own warehouse logistics network. Another outage occurred in mid-December in Oregon and northern California (US-West-1).
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