Amazon AWS S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or completely broken on websites, apps, and devices upon which it relies.
The Amazon AWS S3 offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites and also hosts entire websites, and app backends including Nest.
The S3 outage is due to “high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1,” according to Amazon’s AWS service health dashboard, which is where the company also says it’s working on “remediating the issue,” without revealing any further details.
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Affected websites and services include Quora, newsletter provider Sailthru, Business Insider, Giphy, image hosting at a number of publisher websites, file-sharing in Slack, and many more.
Connected lightbulbs, thermostats, and other IoT hardware are also being impacted, with many unable to control these devices as a result of the outage.
Amazon AWS S3 is used by around 150K websites, and around 120K unique domains and its popularity as a content host concentrate specifically in the U.S.
It’s used by 0.8 percent of the top 1 million websites, which is actually quite a bit smaller than CloudFlare, which is used by 6.2 percent of the top 1 million websites globally – and yet it’s still having this much of an effect.
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Amazingly, even the status indicators on the AWS service status page rely on S3 for storage of its health marker graphics, hence why the site is still showing all services green despite obvious evidence to the contrary.
