MC 2: MC2 Post 1309 Every Now and Then The CLOUD Does Go Down

Saturday, June 30, 2012

MC2 Post 1309 Every Now and Then The CLOUD Does Go Down

The Storm Takes Down Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud

Tweets were flying by the outage

hitting Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest

and SocialFlow.

Instagram Still Down After Storm Cuts Power During Brutal Heat Wave

Popular mobile photo-sharing service Instagram is still down this morning after violent storms in Virginia knocked out the cloud computing services that run it.

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, which powers sites like Netflix and Pinterest, and SocialFlow, as well as Instagram, was impacted during the widespread power outages that affected the region.

On its EC2 support forum, Amazon posted the following updates about the N. Virginia region:

Affected users took to Twitter and Facebook to rail against the service outages.

However, the storms that caused the loss of Instagram and Netflix also knocked out power across wide swaths from Indiana to New Jersey, according to the Washington Post. A large portion of the outages centered around Washington, D.C., which has just posted its worst heat wave since 1934, with a temperature of 104. Two deaths have been reported so far, both from fallen trees.

The power outage is expected to last several days.