Several Amazon.com Inc services, including Prime Video, its namesake e-commerce website and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) were down for thousands of users around the world on Tuesday.
Amazon said the outage was likely due to issues related to the application programming interface (API), which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
“We are experiencing API and console issues in the U.S.-East-1 region,” Amazon said in a report on its service health dashboard.
It said it had identified the cause and was working to resolve the issue.
The effect is not limited to the
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