Users trying to access various Amazon Web Services, including the Amazon website, are reporting outages. Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides cloud computing and a wide range of on-demand technology services over the internet. It provides the backbone for countless online experiences, ranging from multiplayer game servers to Ring doorbell services to voice assistants. On the rare occasion that Amazon Web Services experiences a hiccup, the effects can extend to a variety of seemingly unrelated services that rely on AWS to operate smoothly.
Since 2002, Amazon Web Services has grown into the world's largest cloud computing platform, and it usually works behind the scenes to power much of the modern internet. It provides on-demand computing, networking, data storage, and AI services to millions of organizations. AWS operates dozens of data centers known as regions, which together serve countless customers around the globe. Streaming services like Netflix and Twitch, apps that people use every day like Spotify, and many popular games rely on AWS infrastructure for their servers and data management. And because so many industries depend on it, even a localized disruption can result in a wide range of services temporarily going down.
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