Websites that utilize Amazon for Internet storage were brought down en masse Tuesday afternoon, whe the service's S3 storage product went down.
In a short message on their support page Amazon reported "high error rates" on S3 and they were working to fix it.
The outage brought down the Alexa product that Amazon markets.
Multiple website that rely on Amazon were not loading and were replaced with error messages. On other sites, video and images were having problems loading.
Amazon only reported the east coast was affected but Twitter users in other regions reported problems with Amazon services. Amazon’s web hosting services are among the most widely used on the Internet, which means that when Amazon’s servers goes down, a lot of things go down with them.
In a bit of an ironic twist, the website www.isitdownrightnow.com which tells you what websites are down across the Internet, is down right now.
Some highly notable web services that have been affected by this outage include:
- Netflix
- Expedia
- Airbnb
An outage in 2015 accidentally took down many of these services for several hours. In 2011, Amazon Web Services suffered a days-long outage.
