1 Jul 2012
Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, Heroku… down due Amazon service disruption
Hurricane-like storms knocked an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, offline on juin 30 night, and a chunk of the internet felt it. The six-hour incident temporarily cut off a number of popular internet services, including Netflix, Pinterest, Heroku, and Instagram.
During this outage, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancing service, designed to spread Netflix’s processing loads across data centers, failed.
“We lost a much bigger proportion of just one [Amazon data center] than the last power outage, and the ELBs didn’t route around it,” said Netflix’s Cockroft, via Twitter.
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Date |
Service |
Duration |
Critical Data Lost |
| 2012-06-30 | Amazon | 6 hours | No |