QUINCY (WGEM) - Several local businesses have been effected by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage spreading across multiple service platforms.

The AWS website originally stated there were increased error rates for multiple services in the United State’s east region, starting around midnight.

AWS said some issues are still in the process of being fixed, however Amazon, as well as streaming services, are now usable. One local business in the Gem City said they have felt the effect of the outages at the “point of sale.”

“Our point of sale has been able to hold a lot of the payments that have been made today, but they’re not actually being processed,” said Brennan Hills, a barista at Electric Fountain Brewing. “So, we’re not actually receiving the funds from those payments at this point u

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