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Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday morning, which took down several popular websites including Netflix, Doordash and Hulu, marking the second time in a week the cloud hosting service has failed. 

The Amazon-owned platform began experiencing problems around 10:24am ET, with users citing the website, hosting and server connection as all having issues. It returned to full service shortly after 12:20pm ET. 

Only a few countries, including the US, China the UK and India, reported problems, which were less widespread than the prior outage.

On December 9, Amazon Web Services went down for seven hours and took several other websites with it that use the company’s cloud servers.

However, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows…

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Amazon Web Services went down Tuesday morning impacting users around the world who couldn’t access certain services and websites.

According to a posted message from AWS at 8:22 a.m. (PT) the company was “investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.”

Down Detector, a website that tracks online issues shows the problem peaked around 9 a.m.

The outage impacted Amazon’s web-hosting platform taking down Netflix, Disney+, and Venmo.

McDonald’s, Tinder and even Associated Press went dark.

• Amazon’s web-hosting subsidiary, AWS, is experiencing major issues.
• The outage appeared to cause issues for major streaming services, including Netflix and Disney Plus.
• Amazon said it is “investigating increased error rates.”

SiteGround web hosting suffered a significant four day outage beginning Monday November 8, 2021. It wasn’t until November 12th that they tweeted that they had resolved the problem. Many customers lost rankings in Google and a significant amount of website traffic as the holiday shopping season fast approaches.

Many SiteGround publishers remain upset, largely because of the perceived slow pace of recovery from lost Google Search traffic.

A lack of transparency about what caused the problem may have also inspired a sense of frustration and helplessness. It wasn’t until Monday November 15th that SiteGround publicly acknowledged the cause of the widespread hosting outage.

What Caused the SiteGround Problem?

A tweet by SiteGround revealed that the problem was isolated to an issue between…