There is a possibility that the outage has affected the United States Government, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In an email response to questions, the agency said they were collaborating with the company “to understand any potential impacts this outage may have for federal agencies or other partners.” In September, the company’s Northern Virginia area had problems with EC2 instances as a result of resource contention concerns. In November 2020, the same area faced troubles as a result of API faults in the Kinesis service, which caused several AWS services to suffer. AWS is responsible for large areas of the internet, and any outages like this one have ripple effects that can cause dozens of services to fall at the same time.
