Amazon Web Services faces global outage, affects servers of gaming and others from functioning.
E-Commerce Giant Amazon’s subsidiary Amazon Web Services aka AWS is facing a Global outage for the second time in weeks. AWS provides an on-demand cloud computing platform to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis around the world. Many streaming platforms, online businesses and others which are heavily reliant on Amazon Web Services faced outage.
Gaming Servers Down due to AWS Outage
Let us tell you that it's the second time in this month that AWS faced an outage. However, this time the outage is more severe as many other companies reliant on the services are facing problems in the working. Even the gaming industry is facing a setback as Gaming servers of League of Legends, Valorant, Apex Legends, Halo, Clash Royale, etc. Along with them the servers of AWS, Twitch, Hulu, Playstation Network, Zoom, Snapchat, EA services, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, and other companies were also down due to this Amazon Web Services outage.
🚨#BREAKING There’s reports of a widespread Internet outage happening right now caused by Amazon causing multiple Web Services being down to possibly thousands to millions of users pic.twitter.com/Zb2PjjvMwB
AWS functions resumed
The AWS team has responded about the Outage and informed that the AWS is down due to issues in their US-West-1 region in Northern California and US-West-2 in Oregon. As per the latest reports, AWS has resolved the issues in both the US-West-1 and US-West-2 regions and now all the services have resumed functioning.
AWS second big Outage in a Month
For the unversed, let us inform you that earlier this month AWS faced an outage in the US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia causing the server from various companies to crash. Companies which were affected by the crash included Disney+, Tinder, Amazon’s own logistical network and others. The outage occurred due to a failure in the internal network and as it collapsed due to the unexpected behavior of the automated systems.
