A Christmas Eve Netflix outage “impacting many, but not all”...
A Christmas Eve Netflix outage “impacting many, but not all” streaming devices started Monday afternoon, and was caused by an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Netflix spokesman Joris Evers said Wednesday. Netflix’s teams “worked hard through Christmas Eve” with…
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AWS to fix the problem, and “streaming was available again for the majority of our members late on Christmas Eve Pacific Time,” he said. Netflix is “investigating the cause” of the outage and will do what it can to prevent it from happening again, he said. The outage impacted Netflix in the Americas, but not in Europe, he said. “The number of impacted devices was initially limited but grew in scope Monday afternoon,” he said. The “issues” with AWS’s Elastic Load Balancing service that “impacted some customers” in the eastern U.S. have been “resolved,” an Amazon spokeswoman said, not specifying what those issues were.