Amazon’s cloud computing services, which supply a range of top companies in the world, went down Tuesday. Amazon and other websites were affected beginning around 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Amazon told users it was seeing an impact to multiple application programming interface in the eastern region of the United States. “This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates,” Amazon said about an hour after the outage began. “We have identified the root cause and are actively working towards recovery,” it added. Amazon is best known for its online marketplace but is a key player in the web services space. The company’s profits from providing web services helped it expand its marketplace, which for many years did not make money. Many people became aware of Amazon Web Services (AWS) when Amazon booted Parler, a competitor to Twitter and …