Large internet services such as Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram have Friday to contend with downtime caused by a power outage on Amazons EC2-cloud-based. The failure was caused by a large storm in the Us Virginia.
Severe storms in the north of the state of Virginia made Friday night for a big electricity failure, causing more than a million people without power, came to sit. Among other Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud service was in trouble and as a result there were several large sites in the cloud-based facilities are offline. Among the services were Netflix, Pinterest Heroku and Instagram. Some of the affected services were Saturday morning again online, but not all. How to apply Instagram: “A severe electrical storm in Virginia has most of our servers are affected. At this moment, our team of engineers is hard in order to restore the service.”
Amazon knew the current in the affected datacenter, soon after the failure to repair, but to hours then took the problems arise when, according to Amazon, a ” limited number of customers.” The service says on its status page, the problems to investigate. It is not the first time that Amazon is having problems with its EC2-cloud-based. Earlier this month it went wrong and in april and August of last year was the service even though with hefty downtime, writes Venture Beat.