: Amazon: AWS experienced outage

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN acknowledged late Tuesday that its AWS service is “experiencing degraded contact handling” in the US-EAST-1 Region. In an email message, a company spokesperson pointed to a health status web link that said “Callers may fail to connect and chats may fail to initiate. Agents may experience issues logging in or being connected with end-customers.”

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