Websites including Reddit and Imgur experienced disrupted service including downtime from Amazons’s Web Services Elastic Block Storage (EBS).

Services dropped within the US, focused particularly within Northern Virginia, in which Amazon stated that its service saw, "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes."

The service is designed for large data loads and is frequently coupled with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Past disruptions to AWS have also included downtime from powerful storms and a poorly implemented upgrades which resulted in four days of downtime.