By PETER SVENSSON
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability today because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com.
The problems revealed widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services, which rents out computers and data storage on a self-service basis over the Internet.
AWS is generally considered reliable because it uses vast numbers of computers, spread out in different data centers, making today’s failure unusual.