Saturday, June 30, 2012

Virginia power outages take down Amazon cloud, affecting Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest



Dan O'Shea

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Virginia power outages take down Amazon cloud, affecting Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest - @venturebeat

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Neville Hobson

6:14 AM  -  Public
This might explain why +Instagram isn't uploading any pics at the moment nor syncing any content with your mobile device.
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Alex von Wittig

2:55 AM  -  Public
Amazon web services outage causes Netflix, Instagram, Heroku and more to grind to a halt [Updated: Returning to normal] »
A sizable outage of Amazon’s various web services caused many major web services to crumble on Friday evening. The issues stem from power loss and extend across Amazon’s database, cloud and Elastic Compute services, as indicated by Amazon’s status page. The outages began around 10:45 am EST with outages affecting EC2 instances and EBS volumes, but have certainly gotten worse as the day has gone on. They are currently affecting many services that ...
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Alan Firmin

1:39 AM  -  Public
Who says Instagram is mobile-only? New Web functions and design are here »
Instagram now allows you to comment and edit your account info from the Web, along with a new look and bigger image views. But no, there's still no discovery.
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Luke Shiras

3:19 AM  -  Public
Well that explains it...
Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It - Forbes »
As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains,

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