Amazon’s server outage is getting in the way of deliveries

Amazon Prime delivery van | Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Amazon Web Services outage that started this morning might be worse than it seemed. That’s not only because it’s reportedly cutting off some streams from Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, and Netflix, but because the apps that keep warehouse, delivery, and Amazon Flex workers connected are down too. Amazon has confirmed it’s “experiencing elevated error rates for EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1” region, meaning that connections from one of its largest server operations are spotty at best. Posts in the Amazon employee subreddits say many people can’t access the AtoZ app that manages practically everything about their jobs. Warehouse workers report entire facilities shut down due to network problems and have posted pictures of the company’s... Continue reading…