Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform, has suffered a global outage affecting its users.
According to the AWS Health Dashboard, the company is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region.
We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand the root cause.
A later update confirmed significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 region, affecting other AWS services in the region as well.
Author's summary: AWS suffers global outage affecting users.