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An outage within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup is affecting a number of internet services, including our website. The AWS Health Dashboard notes problems of degradation on multiple services in the US-East-1 region that started around 3PM ET.
It’s almost impossible to count the number of sites and services that rely on AWS, or across which regions or specific services, so how these issues might affect your internet depends on a lot of things. So far, this doesn’t seem to be as much of an issue as some past AWS outages that have held up deliveries, shut down smart home devices, and busted streaming apps.
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