Favorite service down? Amazon Web Services is having issues

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by Sindy Cator on July 31, 2015 at 7:25 am

Amazon Web Services, the cloud hosting platform behind many popular apps and websites, is having issues right now in multiple regions. Services like Yo, Typeform and Yik Yak are unavailable as a result of the outages, which appear to span across the US East, US West and North Virginia data centers. The current issues with Yik Yak appear to be related to an Amazon AWS outage. Our Yaks are working to get things fixed! — Yik Yak (@YikYakApp) July 31, 2015 According to Down Detector, the issues started at 1:46AM ET. Amazon’s status page only reports issues in the North Virginia region right…