Issues with a cloud storage service operated by Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services division caused outages and curtailed functionality for websites and apps Tuesday. AWS’s S3 service, described by Amazon as “designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability,” was experiencing “high error rates” due to problems with servers located on the East Coast of the United States, the company said Tuesday. On the AWS status page, engineers posted at 10:33 Pacific time that “AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates as we are actively working to remediate the errors in Amazon S3.” Reported issues included downed websites, slow functionality and photos not appearing in cloud-based mobile applications and websites.
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