AWS Outage
On Tuesday, several Amazon.com Inc services, including Prime Video, its namesake e-commerce website, and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS), were down for thousands of users around the world. This AWS outage impacted not only Amazon but also other services that rely on AWS.
The outage is believed to have been caused by issues with AWS's Kinesis Data Streams service, which is used to process large amounts of data. The outage affected users in North America, Europe, and Asia, and lasted for several hours.
Amazon has since stated that the issue has been resolved and that they are working to prevent similar outages in the future. However, this incident serves as a reminder of the importance of having backup plans in place for businesses that rely heavily on cloud services like AWS.