Amazon servers suffer brief outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down briefly in some Western states Wednesday, just a week after a major outage on the East Coast.

A group of messages posted on AWS’s service page shortly after 11 a.m. ET said the issue had been “resolved and the service is operating normally.”

The company later revealed that the issue was caused by network congestion and after a fix it does not “expect a recurrence.”

Several services were affected by the AWS issues, including the Amazon-owned gaming platform Twitch.

“We are aware of several issues affecting Twitch services,” the company tweeted. “Our team is aware and hard at work fixing them — we’ll continue to update you, here.”

The Hill has reached out to Amazon for more information.

Last week’s outage, which lasted several hours, was far-reaching.

It caused streaming services Disney+ and Netflix to experience issues. Tinder and Venmo were also briefly inaccessible.

Some of those most affected were Amazon workers themselves, who had problems with the apps that tell them where to deliver packages.

Updated at 3:53 p.m.