Amazon Cloud Outage Takes Down Sites, Streamers

CNBC reports:

Amazon’s cloud-computing service on Wednesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services. A notice on Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was experiencing problems with Kinesis, its service that processes large streams of data, causing “increased error rates” for a number of websites. The outage also impacted its ability to post updates to the status page.

Among the services that reported issues as a result of the outage were Amazon’s smart security subsidiary Ring, Roku, software maker Autodesk, fintech lending company Affirm, Target’s Shipt delivery service and the subway status site operated by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Tribune Publishing properties the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune also reported errors.

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