An outage within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup is affecting a number of internet services, including our website. The AWS Health Dashboard notes problems of degradation on multiple services in the US-East-1 region that started around 3PM ET.
The most recent update from Amazon that was posted at 5PM ET reads, “Many AWS services are now fully recovered and marked Resolved on this event. We are continuing to work to fully recover all services.”