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Is Amazon Down? Yes, Amazon Web and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Services Down on July 28, 2022

Certain Amazon web and cloud services are down, and sites are unreachable, as we post this on Thursday, July 28, 2022. According to a notice from Amazon, the outage started at 10:11 AM PDT, when they issued a notice saying that “We are investigating network connectivity issues for some instances and increased error rates and latencies for the EC2 APIs within the US-EAST-2 Region.”

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Is Amazon Down? Yes it Is!

Is Amazon down? Can it be? Is it possible? Yes, it is – and the day before Christmas eve, too! What a blow for Amazon – all of Amazon is down, with Christmas just 36 hours away, and with only a few shopping hours left!

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Is Amazon Down? (Yes, at Least for Some People, for Some Period of Time.)

For at least a few people – and for at least a few moments – Amazon seems to be down today, as people are finding that they are unable to connect to Amazon. Efforts to reach the site have been met by moments of hanging while browsers were “connecting to Amazon,” followed by error messages.