Glitch in Amazon web servers causes problems for popular sites
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2E9HF)
Outage of several hours affected websites including Medium, Business Insider, Slack, and a large part of the US east coast
Amazon's S3 cloud service experienced an outage of several hours on Tuesday that caused problems for many websites and mobile apps that rely on it, including Medium, Business Insider, Slack, Quora and Giphy.
The company said earlier on Tuesday that it was experiencing "high error rates" on the platform affecting a large part of the east coast of the US. Then on Tuesday afternoon, Amazon posted on its service health dashboard that the issue had been resolved:
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