Why were some of world's biggest websites down yesterday?
An outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's biggest cloud-services provider, disrupted the normal functioning of nearly 1.5 lakh websites in the US. The affected websites included some of the world's biggest websites namely Quora, AOL, ESPN, Giphy, Medium, and Slack. AWS reported "high error rates" which also affected internet-connected devices including light bulbs and thermostats.