Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that
is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage
affecting a large portion of the internet. From a report: “Kinesis has
been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1
Region that’s impacted some other AWS services,” Amazon said in a
statement to The Verge. “We are working toward resolution.” And,
ironically, in a notice on the AWS Service Health Dashboard, Amazon said
the issue has apparently “affected our ability to post updates” to that
dashboard. “We continue to work towards recovery of the issue affecting
the Kinesis Data Streams API in the US-EAST-1 Region,” Amazon said in a
1:47PM ET update posted to the dashboard. “For Kinesis Data Streams, the
issue is affecting the subsystem that is responsible for handling
incoming requests. The team has identified the root cause and is working
on resolving the issue affecting this subsystem.” …
