Reddit users in certain areas in the world are having problems accessing the website today. The cause of the connection issues is an incident at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is Reddit's hosting provider.

Looking at the users commenting on the issue, it appears that there's trouble loading the website in some countries in Europe (Finland, Spain, Italy, Portugal), as well as in Canada, the Philippines, and Australia. Some users in the UK reported that the website loads very slowly or not at all.

According to DownDetector, the regions where users reported Reddit connection trouble are the U.S. East Coast, followed by Northern Europe.

Some users say they saw a 503 error, which is an HTTP status code that shows up whenever a website's server is not available for that connection due to various reasons (overload, maintenance), which would be the case for this incident.

Reddit identified the problem at 06:09 PDT. For about two hours, the platform's status page showed no downtime. The note on the issues was that Reddit was dealing with "an elevated level of errors" that were being investigated.

The tune changed at 07:53 PDT, when Reddit announced that they are affected by an incident at their hosting provider, AWS.

"We're working to mitigate the issue," Reddit informs.

Update [08/31/2019, 15:46 EST]: Reddit informs that all its systems are currently operational. The AWS incident impacted seven Reddit.com components: