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Lightning strikes Amazon cloud (honest)

Posted by brennels on June 15, 2009

By Cade Metz • www.theregister.co.uk/ 12th June 2009 19:38 GMT

Amazon’s cloud was struck by lightning earlier this week. And that’s the truth.

On Wednesday evening at about 6:30pm Pacific time, some Amazon cloud sitters saw their floating servers disappear – and yes, the company blamed the temporary outage on a lightning strike.

According to a web post from the company, the strike zapped a power distribution unit in one of its data centers, taking out server instances in one – and only one – Availability Zone. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) serves up on-demand processing power from two separate geographic locations – the US and Europe – and each geographic region is split into multiple zones designed never to vanish at the same time.

“A lightning storm caused damage to a single Power Distribution Unit (PDU) in a single Availability Zone,” the company said in a web post at 7:33pm. “While most instances were unaffected, a set of racks does not currently have power, so the instances on those racks are down.”

Read the rest of the article on The Register

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