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VyStar Credit Union members struggling to get information on their accounts for more than a week continued to voice concerns Saturday about not having access to their funds or financial data.

As VyStar Credit Union members have been struggling to get information on their accounts for a week now, News4JAX has learned the CEO has been on vacation.

The three most searched for terms on Google UK this year were football-related.

Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including News4JAX and The Associated Press.

The Roseland Pumping Station experienced outages Tuesday that left people in Beverly and Morgan Park without water for the second time this month.

Facebook on Friday experienced an outage that interrupted its services, including its social network, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services," a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement. "We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience." The issues began around 1:30 p.m. ET and were resolved in about an hour.

Amazon's cloud-computing service on Wednesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services. A notice on Amazon Web Services' status page said it was experiencing problems with Kinesis, its service that processes large streams of data, causing "increased error rates" for a number of websites. The outage also impacted its ability to post updates to the status page. Major AWS customers including Apple, Slack and Netflix didn't appear to be experiencing any issues as a result of the outage. This is the first major outage to interrupt many customers since 2017, when the same US-EAST-1 Region experienced issues, knocking some websites offline.

8 schools, VA clinic among thousands of Clay Electric customers without power for hoursPublished: September 25, 2020, 5:10 pmAn issue with Clay Electric knocked out power for almost 23,000 customers just before 5 a.m. -- nearly 10% of the utility’s customers.

Published: May 11, 2020, 7:06 am Updated: May 11, 2020, 7:53 amJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More than a thousand people were without power this morning after a JEA feederline was damaged at Arlington Road and Arlington Expressway. The malfunction knocked out power for more at least 1,064 people during the worst of the outage early Monday morning. Crews said they couldn’t determine what happened to cause the equipment to go down but noted there was a downed wire near Seabrook Parkway. Power should be restored within a few hours, Kyle told News4Jax. A crew has been on scene since 7 this morning.

Some details reported by CNET, an American media website that publishes news on technology and consumer electronics, were used in this report. Find that story here: https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/online-banking-struggling-as-people-check-for-coronavirus-stimulus-checks/Dozens of financial institutions are reporting outages or issues for customers attempting to access online and mobile banking accounts. The trouble with banking services comes the same day the IRS released 80 million coronavirus stimulus payments of at least $1,200, Wednesday. Banks reporting outages included Chase, Capital One, PNC Bank, US Bank and Navy Federal, as well as the app Cash App. Web outage monitoring site Down Detector also shows a spike in outages for these and other online banking services, like Walmart Money Card.

1996 Flashback: AOL goes down for 19 hours The online service experienced a major outage that left users and business unplugged from the Internet for nearly an entire day. This 1996 "CBS Evening News" report looked at the impact the outage had on Internet users, who at the time were less than 20 percent of the population. Peter Van Sant has the story of the day America Online went offline.