Amazon Services AWS and Alexa recover after brief outage: Report
Amazon.com Inc said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday.
Alexa was down for thousands of users in the US, according to Downdetector, while hundreds of users reported issues using AWS.
Users also reported problems accessing Amazon’s mobile app.
Downdetector, which tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors, showed more than 16,000 reports from Alexa at the peak of the outage.
Alexa is now working normally, an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters in an email.
AWS said on its website that services have recovered from an issue where AWS users were unable to complete the account registration process and were receiving error messages regarding their billing console.
The AWS Billing Console helps manage ongoing payments and payment methods registered to AWS accounts, according to its website
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