Amazon’s S3 web-based storage crashed on Tuesday, leaving websites and apps everywhere with widespread issues.
Websites and apps everywhere experienced some technical difficulties on Tuesday after Amazon Web Services’ S3 web-based storage suffered widespread issues and increased error rates.
A number of well known sites and apps, including the likes of Giphy, Slack and Business Insider, suffered problems throughout the day on Tuesday. According to Darrell Etherington from TechCrunch, Amazon’s S3 is used by almost 150,000 different websites, leading to a significant amount of problems across the globe.
There was plenty of negative reactions to the incident on social media, and Amazon Web Services had failed to fix the widespread issues as of Tuesday afternoon. As the nation’s largest cloud computing company, many businesses depend on S3, and the fact that it’s featuring so many errors for so many people is concerning.
Most websites that use AWS S3 aren’t experiencing complete failure, but different aspects of sites have been affected. Examples include broken links and images or long loading times, especially when it comes to images.
The errors with Amazon’s web-based storage occurred around approximately 12:45 p.m. ET, and have been down for almost three hours at the time this post was published. Smart Carting will be sure to provide any update as it comes along.
Until then, there are a lot of websites struggling to work properly. If you’re surfing the internet and find yourself wondering why something isn’t working or is simply being slow, there’s a good chance that it’s because of these increased error rates from AWS S3.
