AWS Power Outage

Major impacted sites such as Instagram, Pinterest and

Netflix has been caused by the power outage at Virginia

It was the second time in less than a month where

Amazon's Northern Virginia data center has suffered

the outage which then impacted the above popular sites

the storm that strike at the Northern Virginia shown

the Electic Compute, Elastic Cache, Elastic MapReduce

and Relational Database Service to be out for an hour

The latest updates from Amazon's dashboard:

8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues

for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.

8:31 PM PDT We are investigating elevated errors rates

for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region,

as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single

availability zone.

8:40 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of

instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power

due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively

working to restore power.

8:49 PM PDT Power has been restored to the impacted

Availability Zone and we are working to bring impacted

instances and volumes back online.

9:20 PM PDT We are continuing to work to bring the

instances and volumes back online. In addition, EC2

and EBS APIs are currently experiencing elevated

error rates.

9:24 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of RDS

instances are impaired. We are actively working on

recovering them.

9:54 PM PDT EC2 and EBS APIs are once again operating

normally. We are continuing to recover impacted

instances and volumes.

Source from: gigaom.com