Amazon’s increasingly popular elastic compute cloud (EC2), which hosts such popular websites and apps as Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram and Flipboard, among others, suffered service disruptions beginning around 1:38 p.m. EDT Monday, as Amazon disclosed on its web services dashboard. By 3:45 p.m. EDT some service had returned but other websites were still out.
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