Four hours after Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage leaving millions of users unable to access huge portions of the internet, including apps, the cloud computing unit of Amazon announced that it has resolved its network devices issues. At around 9.37 am Pacific Standard Time (PT), which translates to 11.07 pm IST, AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region suffered an outage, the AWS Service Health Dashboard said. "This issue is also affecting some out monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates," the notice read. Simultaneously, downdetector.com, a website that tracks user-reported outages, pointed out that these websites and apps were affected by the AWS outage — OTT platforms: Hulu Netflix Amazon Prime Disney+ HBO Max Social media: Facebook Instagram Snapchat Reddit Twitter Games and related: Call of Duty Fortnite Xbox Live Playstation Network Halo These outages highlight the disadvantages of an oligopolistic market trend when it comes to cloud services. According to Statista, AWS has already captured around 32% of the cloud market share. Google and Microsoft Azure's shares were at 20% and 7% respectively. What caused the outage? Two hours after AWS first confirmed the outage, it posted another notice stating that the root cause of the outage was that several network devices were impaired in AWS' US-EAST-1 region. It also mentioned that the following services were impacted as a result — EC2 Connect DynamoDB Gle Athena Timestrea Chime For customers experiencing issues signing-in to the AWS Management Console in US-EAST-1, we…
