Amazon is currently seeing a major outage in some of its web hosting services

UPDATE: Amazon has now fixed an issue which was affected many of its operations across the US.

The company wrote on its AWS support page, "As of 1:49 PM PST, we are fully recovered for operations for adding new objects in S3, which was our last operation showing a high error rate."

"The Amazon S3 service is operating normally."

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Amazon is currently suffering a major outage across one of its key services.

The online giant is reporting errors with some of its Amazon Web Services hosting platform, which helps keep many of the world’s leading websites online.

Amazon has confirmed that is is seeing “high error rates” in a region of its S3 web hosting services, which is causing many sites to go offline or not load properly.