Amazon Web Service outage: How will the third outage affect your Christmas shopping?

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For the third time in less than a month Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down, not only affecting its own store, but third party services that host with them like Epic Games Store, Tinder, and Hulu among others.

The company has been keeping updates through its social media outlets and its official website about the outage, however, main reports indicate that it may be tied directly to a single data center in West Virginia that lost power in the early hours of this morning.

For now, keep in mind that if a website or app is taking longer or fails to load completely it may be due to it being hosted by Amazon. There's no current ETA as to when this will be resolved.

Gamers in particular are having a hard time as many gaming servers are down, including Epic Games, Fortnite and Rocket League to name a few. Other websites being affected are Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Coinbase, Hulu, Udemy, Slack, and Flipboard.

Amazon's own store being affected may result in the loss of thousands of dollars due to the high demand this holiday season, but it pales in comparison as to the losses other services may have by having their services hosted by them.

It is still unclear why AWS has been having issues during the last few weeks, as the service suffered a major outage just two weeks ago and the only response cited was that there was an "unnamed connectivity issue."

Streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime, Disney +, and Netflix have also been affected, demonstrating just how fragile and unpractical is to have a single host for multiple platforms and services.

As of the time of publication, the issue is still ongoing with the last update stating the following:

"6:51 AM PST We have now restored power to all instances and network devices within the affected data center and are seeing recovery for the majority of EC2 instances and EBS volumes within the affected Availability Zone. For the remaining EC2 instances, we are experiencing some network connectivity issues, which is slowing down full recovery. We believe we understand why this is the case and are working on a resolution. Once resolved, we expect to see faster recovery for the remaining EC2 instances and EBS volumes. If you are able to relaunch affected EC2 instances within the affected Availability Zone, that may help to speed up recovery. Note that restarting an instance at this stage will not help as a restart does not change the underlying hardware. We have a small number of affected EBS volumes that are still experiencing degraded IO performance that we are working to recover. The majority of AWS services have also recovered, but services which host endpoints within the customer's VPCs - such as single-AZ RDS databases, ElasticCache, Redshift, etc. - continue to see some impact as we work towards full recovery."

This story is still developing.