Yesterday, there was a widespread issue experienced by many well known websites and apps. This lead to service that was either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. DirectionForward hosting was not affected by this outage.

Amazon AWS S3 is used by around 148,213 websites, and 121,761 unique domains. 0.8% of the top 1 million websites use it — having quite a substantial impact on productivity yesterday, especially in the US where the outage started at 12:35 pm ET.

Amazon has not fully detailed what caused the high error rates but the issue seemed to be that information could get into Amazon’s overall network, but attempting to establish a network connection with the S3 servers was like hitting a brick wall. All traffic was stopped dead in its tracks, so any site or app that hosted data, images or other info on S3 was affected.

Below is a list of some of the affected websites and apps:

• Trello
• Slack
• WeTransfer
• Expedia
• Giphy
• Quora
• Medium
• Airbnb
• Pinterest
• Snapchat’s Bitmoji
• Mailchimp
• Kickstarter
• Lonely Planet
• Flipboard

The AWS S3 problem is now resolved and these and other websites and apps are functioning as normal once again.

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