On Tuesday afternoon, numerous important websites were impacted by a widespread outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Businesses must pay AWS to host their websites and other applications in order to profit from this cloud computing service.
The outage lasted about two hours, despite the fact that the company claims it is now largely resolved.
The status page stated that "We are continuing to work to fully recover all services.".
According to the AWS health dashboard, "Our engineering teams were engaged and started investigating right away. The root cause was quickly identified as a problem with a component in charge of AWS Lambda's capacity management, which directly resulted in errors for customers. " .
AWS Lambda is a service that, according to Reuters, enables users to run computer programs without having to control any underlying servers.
Numerous websites across the internet, including media news websites like The Associated Press and Boston Globe, were impacted by the extensive outage. Just as former President Donald Trump was being charged in a Miami court, the AP reported that it and some other publishers were unable to run their websites.
Additionally, it messed up food orders placed through apps from McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell. .
According to Downdetector, a website that tracks website crashes, many other websites, such as Nike, Hulu, DoorDash, and Delta, also encountered disruptions.
In December 2021, a similar outage struck AWS at a time when Amazon customers were stepping up their holiday shopping.
