<p>Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.</p>.<p>It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.</p>.<p>"Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that's impacted some other AWS services. We are working toward resolution," an AWS spokesperson said in a statement.</p>.<p>Amazon Kinesis, a part of its cloud offerings, collects, processes and analyzes real-time data and offers insights.</p>.<p>Video-streaming device maker Roku Inc, Adobe's Spark platform, video-hosting website Flickr and the Baltimore Sun newspaper were among those hit by the outage, according to their recent posts on Twitter.</p>.<p>"We are experiencing intermittent issues with our website and publishing system because of the AWS outage," the newspaper tweeted.</p>.<p>Amazon's cloud service business is thriving on higher demand from companies switching to virtual offices due to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.<p>Sales from AWS, which sells data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose about 29% in the third quarter.</p>
<p>Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.</p>.<p>It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.</p>.<p>"Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that's impacted some other AWS services. We are working toward resolution," an AWS spokesperson said in a statement.</p>.<p>Amazon Kinesis, a part of its cloud offerings, collects, processes and analyzes real-time data and offers insights.</p>.<p>Video-streaming device maker Roku Inc, Adobe's Spark platform, video-hosting website Flickr and the Baltimore Sun newspaper were among those hit by the outage, according to their recent posts on Twitter.</p>.<p>"We are experiencing intermittent issues with our website and publishing system because of the AWS outage," the newspaper tweeted.</p>.<p>Amazon's cloud service business is thriving on higher demand from companies switching to virtual offices due to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.<p>Sales from AWS, which sells data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose about 29% in the third quarter.</p>