While many people think of Amazon as a great place to score some deals, it also owns Amazon Web Services. This server system hosts a significant portion of the digital world, from Amazon Alexa devices to fast food apps and more.
Unfortunately, that means when AWS goes down lots of services suffer. And that's exactly what happened today (June 7) when, according to several outlets and Down Detector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, AWS was hit with a major outage. The Verge reported that the issue appears to be tied to an issue with US-EAST-1 region that started at around 3 p.m. ET.
