Another Amazon outage takes down Slack, Epic Games and more

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Amazon Web Services suffered another widespread outage today (Dec. 22), in the third such case this month.

"We are investigating increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity issues for some instances in a unmarried Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-i Region," read a post on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Health Dashboard at 7:35 a.m. Eastern fourth dimension. "Other Availability Zones within the U.s.-EAST-i Region are not afflicted past this issue."

The trouble was blamed on "a loss of power inside a unmarried data eye." Power was said to be restored past 8:39 a.m. Eastern time, and affected services "should be starting to meet recovery." A 9:51 a.1000. update said that "the majority of AWS services have also recovered."

Online companies reporting service problems included Slack and Ballsy Games, while Down Detector showed users reporting trouble with Grindr, Hulu, McDonald's and DoorDash, among others, although it wasn't clear whether all those problems were acquired by an AWS outage.

Internet services outages are currently impacting the Epic Games Shop, affecting logins, library, purchases, etc. Nosotros are monitoring the state of affairs and nosotros will update you when the outcome is resolved.December 22, 2022

Some of those impacted services appeared to be recovering by 9:30 a.g. Eastern fourth dimension, according to Down Detector. However, Slack reported 5 minutes later on that "issues with file uploads are ongoing," and then at 10:06 a.m. Eastern thanked its users "for sticking with united states equally we go along to work towards a gear up."

According to Statista, AWS comprises 32% of the entire worldwide cloud-infrastructure market.

AWS had like issues on Dec. 7, when one of its servers in the eastern U.Southward. went down, and again on Dec. xv, when the problem was traced to a West Coast server. Today's snafu, as indicated in a higher place, seems to lie with another Eastern-region server.

The issues seemed to accept been more than wide-ranging in the previous two AWS outages, affecting Disney Plus, Netflix, Sony'south PlayStation Network and Amazon's own Prime Video, Alexa, Ring Video Doorbell services and fifty-fifty delivery-commuter navigation.

Nevertheless, a Reddit thread indicated that some of those services were affected this time likewise.

On the 6th 24-hour interval of Christmas AWS gave to me, 6 servers frying, 5 stolen dataaaaa! Log4j, 3 power outage, ii missing backups, and an overdraft fee.December 22, 2022

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