Amazon's EC2 Cloud Service Crashes

And takes a number of sites down with it

Overnight on Wednesday, Amazon’s cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) service went down, affecting sites including Foursquare, Reddit, Quora, and Moby. According to Amazon’s own dashboard, both its EC2 service and its Relational Database Service were experiencing “instance connectivity, latency, and error rates.”

Apart from being an online retailer, Amazon is a major cloud service provider, and fledgling sites without their own infrastructure are drawn to Amazon’s inexpensive hosting fees. “On the plus side, [outsourcing to Amazon] lets startups scale up their infrastructure much more cheaply and efficiently,” Business Insider's Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry explained.

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