As you likely know by now from either the headlines or your own related difficulties, Amazon web services, the top cloud computing provider, experienced a major outage on Tuesday morning, lasting from around 10 am eastern time until nearly 8 pm. The company first spoke on the outage on their online dashboard at around 11:30 pm yesterday, stating that they were "investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console." Later, they updated with, “We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.
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