Effects of Amazon Cloud Computing Outage Felt Locally
The Amazon web services outages had a local impact in the Capital Region, affecting various services.
- Ring doorbell cameras
- Amazon orders
- Snapchat
- Games like Roblox and Fortnite
- Disney+
- Lyft
- McDonald's app
- Venmo
At Paesan's Pizza in Latham, a payment issue occurred, with Mastercard transactions displaying a "service unavailable" message, while American Express cards were processed successfully.
So normally when we come in the morning, I open up, turn on the computers, and all of a sudden all the online orders come up and this morning we had zero. I'm like 'what's going on?' Things slowly started to come back online.
Owner Frank Scavio felt fortunate the outage didn't happen on a Friday, their busiest day.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage affects local services.