For second time in less than a month, Amazon’s Northern Virginia data center has suffered an outage and is impacting many popular services. Amazon’s status dashboard shows that the Elastic Compute, Elastic Cache, Elastic Mapreduce and Relation Database Services have been out for over an hour. The outage was first reported around 8.21 pm, PST. Amazon is blaming the outage on what it describes as “a power event”.
The outage is impacting sites such as Instagram, Pinterest & Netflix. Heroku, a platform provider to many startups and mobile apps has been impacted as well. Amazon previously suffered an outage in its Northern Virginia facilities on June 14, 2012.
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