Japan investigating Amazon cloud disruptions to brokers, airline

Japan is investigating an Amazon Web Services outage that caused disruptions at major online brokerages, a leading mobile phone carrier and the country's biggest airline, a government spokesperson said Thursday. The outage, at least the third for Amazon since June, hit ANA Holdings, which said some flights were delayed after problems with its ticketing and check-in system, although services were later restored. An Amazon spokesperson said that the six hour disruption in the Tokyo region was caused by the "loss of several core networking devices" and had "been resolved". Amazon declined to comment on how many customers were affected by the glitch, but monitoring website Downdetector showed no other outages, suggesting it was confined to Japan. In June, many users experienced a brief outage at Amazon's platforms including Alexa and Prime Video, and weeks later Amazon said its online stores had faced a global outage. read more"The Financial Services Agency will look into it to understand what happened and is asking affected companies to prioritise the needs of their customers," Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told a regular media briefing.<br/>