There is a reason why you might be struggling with buying your items from Amazon or binging your favorite show on Netflix. Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, reported issues with outages at around 9:45 a.m. The source of the outage is with the US-EAST-1 cloud region. Amazon has identified the issues and says the company is “actively working towards recovery.” The cause of the outage was not known as of 11:45 a.m. Tuesday. Nathan Drager from Quantum PC Services in Sturgeon Bay says outages like this have a big ripple effect around the globe.
Drager added that this is a good reason for people to add redundancy to their networks so if outages like this occur, they can continue to work. According to DataCenterDynamics.com, AWS also had issues in September 2021 and November 2020. The company says customers may be able to access region-specific consoles going to https://console.aws.amazon.com/.
