Amazon Outage Grounds Deliveries, Ticket Sales, Media Outlets, Streaming

People couldn’t change flights on Delta, order concert tickets from Ticketmaster, read several news outlets, and more when Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down on Tuesday (Dec. 7) for more than five hours, according to multiple reports. Although Amazon has not yet addressed a reason for the outage, a notice on the AWS status page had indicated that there were problems with some APIs and the AWS Management Console, which primarily affected the main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia.