Amazon Web Service s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site (and TechCrunch darling), Quora.com. The company said that it was investigating latency and error rates in their elastic block storage (EBS) that may have produced connectivity issues on the U.S. east coast.
Source: https://threatpost.com/amazon-web-service-down-no-timeline-remedy-042111/75152/