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Amazon (AMZN) said Amazon Web Services is "operating normally" after the cloud computing unit reported problems that triggered widespread outages and disruptions for several hours on many websites and apps.

AWS issued this update at 5:08 p.m. ET: "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.

Previously, AWS had said that its S3 service was experiencing "high error rates."

Amazon is the largest provider of cloud services, followed by Microsoft (MSFT) Azure and Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google Cloud Platform.

Cloud computing is mushrooming as customers ditchthe hassles of running their own computers and seek betterspeed and performance.

AWS revenue jumped 55% in 2016 to $12.2 billion. Analysts estimate that Microsoft's Azure cloud service topped $2.6 billion in 2016 revenue, with Google at around $1 billion.

Amazon stock slipped 0.4% to 845.04 in the stock market today, after hitting an all-time high of 860.86 on Thursday.

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