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Amazon outage caused by power failure during Virginia storm

Posted by brennels on December 14, 2009

By Carl Brooks, Technology Writer
09 Dec 2009 | SearchCloudComputing.com

“Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a power failure at its flagship data center in the wee hours of the morning today, suffering from connectivity issues from about 4AM to 10AM Eastern Standard Time.

The cloud computing giant reported an “underlying power issue” that affected some instances in its US-EAST-1 availability zone. Amazon has four availability zones in the U.S., two on the East Coast and two on the West Coast. 

The outage was irksome to users, but many gave Amazon points for better disclosure and fast response on the issue. Independent cloud monitoring services accurately reported the issue, a sign that public cloud services are gaining more traction.”

Read the full article here on SearchCloudComputing.com

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