Amazon Web Services, the cloud-based service of Amazon was down for thousands of users worldwide on Tuesday.
The service disruptions just before noon Tuesday, according to the website Down Detector. More than 11,000 people reported the outage.
“I can confirm we’re currently investigating the increased error rates and latencies,” stated Amazon Web Services on Twitter, in response to a user complaining that they were unable to access the service.
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AWS is a cloud computing server service and hosts many website and app tools. There was no word as to when the service will be restored.
Many people took to Twitter to complain about AWS being down:
Amazon Web Services is reportedly down because it is experiencing an outage in its US-East-1 cloud region. As a result of the outage, AWS CloudFormation, Lambda, and Amazon Connect were impacted.
“We are continuing to experience increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-East-1 Region,” the company said on its status page. “We have identified the root cause as an issue with AWS Lambda, and are actively working toward resolution.”
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The AWS Management Console home page is also unavailable, users reported.
Some of the companies which have been impacted by the outage are Weblow, Chatbase, Cloudsmith, Option Research, DCU Center, Decent.xyz, Simplecast, and Mobile Assistant. They are either experiencing degraded performance or full outages.
Verge said that due to the outage, they were unable to update its homepage. The Burger King app is also down as a result of the outage.