CVS says a system outage is preventing some of its pharmacies from filling prescriptions

New York CNN Selected customers might not be able to fill or pick up their prescriptions at CVS locations on Tuesday because of technical issues A CVS spokesperson explained in a announcement Tuesday that the company is working to resolve a structure connection issue that has prevented several pharmacies from delivering medicine to customers While most of of our pharmacies can still fill prescriptions chosen patients may experience delays a CVS spokesperson stated Numerous people on social media complained that they can t pick up their prescriptions or were being turned away for tests and flu shots We are experiencing a known system outage CVS responded to frustrated customers on X We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and can assure you that we are diligently working on restoring institution CVS has more than locations in the United States Last week it informed it bought around Rite Aid locations following its former rivals closure after six decades in business It s not clear that had anything to do with CVS outage Tuesday The system outage comes a day after Amazon Web Services experienced issues of its own and inconvenienced millions of people around the world Although the two events do not appear related they highlight how much people rely on cloud-based systems for their crucial daily initiatives and how vulnerable we are as a society when they go down for whatever reason The AWS outage Monday brought down a crucial portion of the internet s biggest apps platforms sites and services For example hospitals mentioned crucial communications services weren t working and teachers couldn t access their planned lessons for the day Chime a mobile banking facility was down too leaving people without access to their money Ring and Blink cameras along with most of smart home devices stopped working