Amazon's cloud services recovering after global outage

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Amazon's cloud services were recovering on Monday after going offline for hours, disrupting services for some popular websites and apps globally.

The issue "has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now" by 3:35 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (1035 GMT), the maintenance website of Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in an update, adding that some services are still being impacted.

It said that its engineers are "making progress on resolving the issue," which they first noticed as "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region."

AWS first reported the problem at 12:11 a.m. Eastern Time (0411 GMT) and said it was dealing with an "operational issue" affecting 14 different services in its northern Virginia center.

Global websites and apps including Amazon Prime, Snapchat and many other online services were affected, according to media reports. ■