By piccoloprincipe
via blog.cloudflare.com
Submitted: Jul 02 2012 / 05:56
A huge storm rolled across the eastern United States last night, topping trees and knocking out power. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had one of their primary data centers in Virginia lose power. While data centers typically have backup generators for when they lose power from the grid, it appears something in the backup systems failed and AWS's EC2 Northern Virginia region went offline. That took down much of Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services that rely on Amazon's cloud hosting service.
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