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Some of the nation’s most popular news sites, including AJC.com, have been saddled by website and app connection issues due to a widespread Amazon Web Services outage. Outage website DownDetector has received thousands of reports from users since shortly before 9 a.m. There were still hundreds of reports on the site as of 3 p.m.
Credit: Via Downdetector
Credit: Via Downdetector
AWS powers dozens of internet services, so websites for Roku, Flickr, Adobe, Anchor and several others reported outages Wednesday, according to Engadget. On Amazon’s Web Services health dashboard, the latest update was given about 12:15 p.m.
“We continue to work towards recovery of the issue affecting the Kinesis Data Streams API in the US-EAST-1 Region. We also continue to see an improvement in error rates for Kinesis and several affected services, but expect full recovery to still take up to a few hours,” read a message on the site.
The issue continues to affect other services, or parts of these services, that utilize Kinesis Data Streams within their workflows. While features of multiple services are impacted, some services have seen broader impact and service-specific impact.
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