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Amazon cloud outage hits major websites, streaming apps

By Eva Mathews

Dec 8 2021 1:17PM

Occurred in US-EAST-1 region.

Amazon cloud outage hits major websites, streaming apps

A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services in the United States, temporarily knocking out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, a wide range of apps and Amazon.com's e-commerce website as consumers shopped ahead of Christmas. "Many services have already ...

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