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Amazon Web Services suffers major outage

Amazon Web Services was hit by a major outage Tuesday, hampering service to many sites.

“We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region,” . “This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates.”

The company said it identified the root cause of the issue but doesn’t know when full service will be restored.

Issued , according to the Associated Press. Some people have also experienced issues with the McDonald’s app.

Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to governments, universities and companies, the AP reported.

Will Vitka

William Vitka is a Digital Writer/Editor for ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½.com. He's been in the news industry for over a decade. Before joining ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½, he worked for CBS ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½, Stuff Magazine, The New York Post and wrote a variety of books—about a dozen of them, with more to come.

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