The cloud computing unit of Amazon Web Service suffered a service outage on Tuesday, which in turn affected a number of media outlets who found themselves surprisingly unable to manage their sites.
The company said on its website that the main cause of the problem is related to a service called AWS Lambda, which allows customers to run code for different types of applications.
After nearly two hours of customers starting to encounter the problem, the company posted on the Amazon Web Services page that many services had returned to work “fully” and that it was on its way to restore the rest of the services to work.
And after 6:30 pm EST, the company announced the return of all Amazon Web services to work normally.
Amazon stated that it encountered multiple errors for Amazon Web services in the Northern Virginia region where data centers gather, noting that customers may encounter authentication or login refusals when using some Amazon Web services, or problems when trying to contact support at Amazon. The Lambda problem also indirectly affected other Amazon services.
Patrick Negorn, a spokesman for the company, declined to provide additional details about the outage.
Amazon Web is a leader in the cloud computing market, and its customers include some of the world’s largest corporations and organizations, such as Netflix and Coca-Cola, and government agencies.
The outage was confirmed on Tuesday for the first time after 3 p.m. EST. It was not clear how widespread the problem was. But many companies, including news organizations, said they were facing problems.
The Associated Press was also hampered by the Amazon outage, as it was unable to operate its sites to publish breaking news about former President Donald Trump’s court appearance in Miami.
2023-06-14 07:16:19
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