There are reports of another major outage at Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, on Christmas Eve.
AWS Outage On Christmas
Soon after, outage-tracking service Downdetector posted that user reports had been flagging problems with Amazon Web Services since 8:41 p.m. EST, asking followers how the disruption was affecting them and tagging the issue with the hashtag #AmazonWebServicesDown. The service also directed users to its dedicated AWS status page, where live charts showed a surge in complaints tied to the cloud giant.
Downdetector data indicated 3,659 reports of AWS outages as of 10:52 p.m. (EST). Amazon Web Services did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comments.
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