Amazon Web Services has experienced a large-scale outage, the company reported on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.
The disruption also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.
"Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that's impacted some other AWS services. We are working toward resolution," an AWS spokesperson said in a statement.
Amazon Kinesis, a part of AWS' cloud offerings, collects, processes and analyzes real-time data and offers insights.
Video-streaming device maker Roku Inc, Adobe's Spark platform, video-hosting website Flickr and the Baltimore Sun newspaper were among those hit by the outage, according to their recent posts on Twitter.
"We are experiencing intermittent issues with our website and publishing system because of the AWS outage," the newspaper tweeted
Amazon's cloud service business is thriving on higher demand from companies switching to virtual offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sales from AWS, which sells data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose about 29% in the third quarter.
Reporting by Ayanti Bera
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