Amazon Web Services Reports Outage in the U.S. Late Monday

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia had connectivity issues late Monday, knock off temporarily a number of websites and services that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) sully computing infrastructure.

The parenthetic which likely lasted for or so 30 minutes however highlights the risks up to his neck in a cloud computing modeling. Amazon had another longer outage in April that noncontinuous a keep down of services in the U.S.

A lightning strike in Dublin on Sunday caused a power outage in data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, resulting in their cloud services going offline.

AWS reported on its service dashboard at 7:39 PM PDT (Peaceable Daylight Time) that it was investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the USA-E-1 region. By 7:50 PM, information technology aforementioned information technology could verify connectivity issues between instances in the US-EAST-1 region and the Cyberspace. Full connectivity was restored at 8:03 PM, and AWS reported that the service is operating normally. AWS also rumored at 7:57 PM another connectivity issue in Due north Virginia at its relational database service which was resolved in 11 minutes.

A number of companies reported on Chitter that services were down along Monday, A a result of the outage. Instagram, a exposure joint service for iPhone users, said it was experiencing starring problems with its hosting provider. It ulterior reported that it was back online. Foursquare, a location-settled mobile program, said on its web site that it was affected aside the Amazon EC2 outage at 7:14 Prime Minister PDT.

Amazon was not immediately available for comment.

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