By Dhirendra Tripathi
Investing.com – Amazon stock (NASDAQ:AMZN) traded 0.1% lower in early trade on Wednesday on reports of an outage at its Cloud platform Amazon Web Services.
Reuters quoted Amazon’s Cloud computing arm as saying that some users on the U.S. East Coast were facing issues due to a loss of power within a single data center.
Amazon said the outage was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface, a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
According to reports, AWS has restored power in majority of instances. Networking devices within affected data center are starting to see some early signs of recovery, reports said.
Data from Downdetector, a platform showing real-time overview of outages at websites, showed the problem peaking around 0830 ET.
Cloud computing company Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) reported many customers getting "increased errors" across several clients with origins in a common Cloud provider, unrelated to its Edge Cloud network, according to Reuters.
Office messaging app Slack said it is experiencing issues with file uploads, message editing, and other services.
Amazon's Cloud computing division, which competes with other giants like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), grew 39% in the third quarter to $16.11 billion. Cloud services have had a scorching run for more than a year as the pandemic accelerated the shift to digital. Outages have also become a little more frequent as companies grapple with surging traffic in times when shopping to studies are all happening online.