AWS Reports Fresh Glitches Days After Major Global Outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced fresh technical glitches on Wednesday night, affecting thousands of users just days after resolving a massive global outage that had crippled more than half the internet.
Key Takeaways
- AWS faced renewed service disruptions on Wednesday night
- Thousands of users reported issues across multiple platforms
- Outage reports primarily originated from US-EAST-1 region
- Incident occurred shortly after last week’s major global outage
User Reports and Company Response
Users reported the issues across multiple online platforms during a brief wave of outage reports. However, the company later denied there was a significant service disruption.
Data from tracking service DownDetector showed most reports were concentrated in the US-EAST-1 region – the same area that experienced technical problems during last week’s major outage.
Global Impact of Cloud Services
AWS hosts applications and computing processes for companies worldwide. The previous disruption on October 20 had knocked workers from London to Tokyo offline and prevented users from completing everyday tasks like paying service providers or changing travel arrangements.
Amazon’s cloud service powers thousands of websites and popular applications including Snapchat and Reddit, making any disruption immediately noticeable to millions of users globally.
