Amazon.com stated its cloud computing division Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa had been again on-line after a quick outage on Sunday. Downdetector, an outage monitoring web site, additionally reported Apple TV to be down for a number of customers.
Alexa was down for hundreds of customers in america, in response to Downdetector, whereas tons of of customers reported points with accessing AWS. Customers additionally reported points accessing Amazon’s cell app.
Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating standing stories from a number of sources together with user-submitted errors, confirmed greater than 16,000 stories about Alexa on the peak of the disruption.
Alexa is now working usually, an Amazon spokesperson advised Reuters in an electronic mail.
AWS on its web site stated providers have recovered from a problem through which AWS customers had been unable to finish the account signup course of and had been receiving error messages concerning their billing console.
AWS’s billing console helps to handle ongoing funds and cost strategies registered to AWS accounts, in response to its web site.
Apple’s TV platform was additionally again up after an outage of some hours for hundreds of customers in america late on Saturday, in response to Downdetector.com.
The platform was down for six,000 customers on the peak of the outage, Downdetector.com confirmed.
Customers additionally reported going through points with different Apple providers like Apple Help and iCloud late on Saturday.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark concerning the reason for the outage or whether or not different providers had been impacted as indicated by Downdetector.
Final week, Apple customers had reported points with streaming Apple Music briefly.
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