Amazon Web services has been experiencing a widespread outage affecting swaths of the Internet from new sites like The Washington Post to services like flicker, Amazon said Wednesday.

亞馬遜週三表示，亞馬遜網絡服務一直在經歷大範圍的中斷，影響到互聯網的大片地區，從《華盛頓郵報》等新網站到flicker等服務。

The outage has also affected their ability to post updates to its service.

停電也影響了他們發佈更新服務的能力。

Dashboard video streaming device maker Raku Adobe Spark Platform and The Baltimore Sun newspaper were also among those hit by the outage.

儀表盤視頻流媒體設備製造商Raku Adobe Spark Platform和《巴爾的摩太陽報》也是受中斷影響的對象之一。

According to recent tweets, Amazon's cloud service business is thriving on higher demand from companies switching to virtual offices due to the global health crisis.

根據最近的推文，亞馬遜的雲服務業務正在蓬勃發展，因為受全球健康危機的影響，企業轉向虛擬辦公室的需求更高。

Sales from AWS, which provides data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose about 29% just in the months from July to September.

僅在7月至9月的幾個月裡，提供雲端數據存儲和計算能力的AWS的銷售額就增長了約29%。