What Is The AWS Outage? Amazon S3 Issue Takes Trello, Quora, IFTTT Down

UPDATE: 2:45 p.m. EST — More websites and apps were having issues or completely down Tuesday after Amazon Web Services experienced a problem with its hosting platform.

Popular audiobook service Audible described issues in the United Kingdom, and filesharing wasn't working in the messaging system Slack. Down entirely were digital library JSTOR, daily fantasy sports site DraftKings, biking app Strava and home improvement site Build Direct, among others.

Amazon said it was working to correct the problem.

UPDATE: 2:23 p.m. EST — Amazon Web Services said in a statement Tuesday it was "working hard on recovering" after an issue with its hosting platform led to a number of popular sites going down, including Trello and Quora.

"S3 is experiencing high error rates. We are working hard on recovering," Amazon Web Services tweeted.

"Will update Twitter on this handle as we have new information," it tweeted soon after.

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If your favorite website went down Tuesday, it's likely because of an issue at Amazon Web Services.

AWS, as it's called, provides service for many popular websites and apps, meaning that those websites and apps started having issues Tuesday. Amazon's service experienced a problem with one region of its hosting platform.

"We're continuing to work to remediate the availability issues for Amazon S3 in US-EAST-1. AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates as we are actively working to remediate the errors in Amazon S3," the company wrote on its website.

Websites such as Quora, tech site IFTTT and Trello, among others, were reportedly having issues. The gif website Giphy and the messaging app GroupMe also appeared to be having problems, but were not completely down.

"Amazon’s web hosting services are among the most widely used out there, which means that when Amazon’s servers goes down, a lot of things go down with it," Verge reporter Jacob Kastrenakes wrote on the tech site.

In a bit of a funny twist of fate, the website IsItDownRightNow.com, which tells a user if a website is actually down or just a problem for one person, was also down Tuesday.