There was a problem with Amazon's cloud service. Trello, Coursera, Quora and other sites work intermittently

Amazon cloud service crashed. As a result, large sites that use it began to work intermittently, or not open at all.

Trello task manager won't open, Quora question service won't work, videos won't open on the Coursera platform. reported access problems Other sites have also . Among others, the Is It Down Right Now site , which shows whether a particular site is available, was affected.

Amazon reports that the failure occurred in its Amazon S3 hosting service. Judging by the messages on Twitter, problems with the service began at about 21:00 Moscow time.

There are jokes on Twitter about the situation at Amazon headquarters.

And about the “alternative facts” that Amazon presents on its service status page.

• Amazon promises that its S3 service is up to 99.99 percent of the time per year, meaning it can be down for about 53 minutes.