Amazon investigating AWS outage in U.S. East region
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) said on Thursday that it is investigating an outage of its Amazon Web Services cloud, located in the U.S.'s eastern region.
The outage, which occurred shortly after 1 p.m. EST, "increased error rates and latencies for the EC2 APIs," Amazon (AMZN) said on the AWS Health Dashboard.

The company attributed the outage to a loss of power impacting part of a single data center in the availability zone.
Shortly before 1:30 p.m., Amazon (AMZN) said power had been restored to the affected facility and "the majority" of impacted EC2 instances had recovered, but the rest would recover over the next few hours.
Amazon's (AMZN) AWS is the backbone of much of the internet, with Netflix (NFLX), Disney+ (DIS) and a number of other streaming services, as well as websites, using the cloud platform.
Amazon (AMZN) is scheduled to announce second-quarter earnings results after the close of trading today.