{"id":384121,"date":"2011-04-21T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/amazon-fault-takes-down-websites\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:56:29","slug":"amazon-fault-takes-down-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/amazon-fault-takes-down-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon fault takes down websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"44.7360308285\"><span><span>21 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>09:56 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scores of well-known websites have been unavailable for large parts of Thursday because of problems with Amazon&#8217;s web hosting service.<\/p>\n<p>Foursquare, Reddit and Quora were among the sites taken offline by the glitch.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon EC2 is the retailer&#8217;s cloud computing business. 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