Glitch in Amazon web servers causes problems for popular sites

Outage of several hours affected websites including Medium, Business Insider, Slack, and a large part of the US east coastAmazon’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