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https://www.theverge.com was also affected with the same error. But it seems to be back up

What is the common factor for Reddit and CNN.com?

S3 outage again?

maybe using the same cloud services

Probably their CDN: Fastly. Certainly they use Varnish, which is what's giving me 503 errors at the moment.

hmm, the same here for cnn.com,