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Amazons web hosting services are among the most widely used out there, which means that when Amazons servers goes down, a lot of things go down with them. That appears to be happening today, with Amazon reporting high error rates in one region of its S3 web services, and a number of services going offline because of it.

Trello, Quora, IFTTT, and Splitwise all appear to be offline, as are websites built with the site-creation service Wix; GroupMe seems to be unable to load assets (The Verges own image system, which relies on Amazon, is also down); and Alexa is struggling to stay online, too. Nests app was unable to connect to thermostats and other devices for a period of time as well.

Isitdownrightnow.com also appears to be down as a result of the outage.

Amazon has suffered brief outages before that have knocked offline services including Instagram, Vine, and IMDb. There dont appear to be any truly huge names impacted by this outage so far, but as always, its effects are widespread due to just how many services especially smaller ones rely on Amazon.

Theres no estimate on when service will be restored, but Amazon says it is actively working on remediating the issue.

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Amazon's web servers are down and it's causing trouble across the internet - The Verge