Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides the backbone of Netflix, Slack, Pinterest and thousands of other websites and services, appeared to suffer a widespread outage Tuesday. According to Amazon, the disruption lasted more than 40 minutes..
Slack, Asana, Netflix, Pinterest, and many other apps and websites that rely on AWS were suddenly unresponsive Tuesday evening. Newly-launched Beats 1 radio was also reportedly down more than 40 minutes.
The status dashboard for AWS, which reports service disruptions, was among the sites that were unavailable during the disruption.

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