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Amazon Web Services suffers third fall in the month; services like Slack and Asana are affected
Once again, Amazon’s servers suffered a drop this Wednesday, marking their third drop in less than a month. Although apparently they solved it in a few hours, according to reports from Downdetector, a website that tracks Internet problems based on user reports.
So if services like Asana, Slack, Epic Games, Fortnite, or Rocket League stopped working for you this morning , you already know why.
For Amazon Web Services, this is the third drop in the month of December and the second of the week . And although there has been speculation about “cyber attacks” the truth is that AWS has not confirmed anything similar, on the contrary it has only said that the failures are due to problems with electricity.
“Outages are due to power loss in a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 region.”
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For their part, the third companies that were affected have also spoken out, before the complaint through the social networks, users.
Epic Games, confirmed to its customers that indeed the bug was affecting logins, the library and the purchases on their website.
Internet services outages are currently impacting the Epic Games Store, affecting logins, library, purchases, etc.
We are monitoring the situation and we will update you when the issue is resolved.
– Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) December 22, 2021
In the same way, Slack, from San Francisco, apologized for the problems they were experiencing and since 7: 30 AM EST up to 1: 30 PM EST updated the service status every half hour. “We are beginning to see problems stabilize, although some users may continue to experience intermittent problems,” they said.
Another affected was the software manufacturer Asana, which also reported “an important outage ” to later ensure that the service was already stabilizing.
In the same way Fortnite Game did on its social networks and kept its users informed from the moment the service was reported as down .
Internet services outages are currently affecting Fortnite, impacting several services such as logins and matchmaking.
We are aware and monitoring the situation, we will update you when the issue has been resolved. pic.twitter.com/GRhcQnxH54
– Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 22, 2021
Later, another tweet updated the status of the service stating that the problem It was resolved and recommended to its users to “close and restart Epic Games Launcher”.
There are many companies are affected by the fall of Amazon Web Services , even its closest competitors like Netflix and Disney +.
Already with 3 drops in less than a month, customers and users are beginning to worry and as seen in networks, they expect AWS to offer a report full on what has been hitting your servers so often. Although others state that this type of falls is normal.
At the moment, so far this day the Amazon shares experience a fall of one 13. 9%.