Amazon says issues affecting internet are fully resolved

After causing problems for websites and mobile applications in the United States on Tuesday, Amazon.com Inc. said it had solved issues with a crucial cloud-infrastructure offering Tuesday afternoon. At 2:08 p.m. Pacific time, Amazon Web Services posted on its status page that all issues with S3, a cloud-storage service, had been resolved. "We are fully recovered for operations for adding new objects in S3, which was our last operation showing a high error rate," the message read. "The Amazon S3 service is operating normally." Amazon first disclosed the problem at 10:33 a.m. Pacific time.

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