The Day the Internet Died: 26* Funniest Twitter Reactions to the Amazon S3 Outage

If you haven’t heard, Amazon S3 is down — and it’s taken much of the internet with it.

It even forced us to cancel today’s Website Throwdown:

But anyway —

The Amazon Web Services tool that provides storage for millions of website files across the globe (including popular tools and sites such as Quora, Buffer, Slack, Giphy, Expedia, Airbnb, Zendesk, MailChimp, Unbounce, NewsCorp, Pinterest, shall I continue?) experienced a major outage on the U.S. East Coast beginning as early as 10:00 AM.

The technical difficulties have sent tech companies and internet users (like IMPACT) into a frenzy and needless to say, hilarity ensued on Twitter.

Here are some of our favorite reactions on Twitter (so far):

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G. Ramona Sukhraj
Business Daily: Startups, Business Development, Management

Director of Content with a passion for DEI and representation in marketing and media. Play with words, not hearts. @ramonasukhraj / @fromramonawlove