India, Oct. 20 -- More than 1,000 firms have been affected by Amazon Web Services' outage, which could cost retailers and corporations billions of dollars in lost income and service interruption, according to Parcelhero, a home delivery expert, ACW reported.

Access to delivery applications, social media sites, banks, and airlines were affected by today's Amazon Web Services outage. According to Parcelhero, a home delivery company, a similar incident at Crowdstrike last year caused Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in losses and affected several businesses worldwide.

David Jinks M.I.L.T., Head of Consumer Research at Parcelhero, said: "Yet again, global e-commerce businesses and services have been reminded how fragile the online ecosyst...