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Amazon Web Services, a major cloud hosting service, had a system failure on Tuesday that affected numerous websites and apps.
The issue was not fixed until just before 5 p.m. ET.
“As of [4:49 p.m. ET] we are fully recovered for operations for adding new objects in S3, which was our last operation showing a high error rate. The Amazon S3 service is operating normally,” the company reported.
The problem had lasted for approximately 11 hours and caused problems for websites and online services throughout the day.
AWS had reported on its Service Health Dashboard at 2:35 p.m. ET that its engineers were working on the problem, which affected websites including Netflix, Reddit and Adobe.
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