An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries
Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers are causing slow loading or failures for significant chunks of the internet. Amazon's widespread network of data centers powers many of the things you interact with online, including this website, so as we've seen in previous AWS outage incidents, any problem has massive rippling effects. People started noticing problems at around 10:45AM ET, and just after 6PM ET the AWS Status showed Many services have already recovered, however we are working towards full recovery across services."
Amazon's internal apps went down, too, cutting off some delivery drivers and stalling warehouse robots
While some affected services that rely on AWS have been restored, the internet is still a bit...