Late last night , a severe electrical violent storm struck over Northern Virginia , Maryland and DC , halting gearing traffic and felling trees .
The Washington Post lived blogged the severe electric tempest , account at 11:27pm :
“ [ W]ind gusts of nearly 80 mph have just blown through the D.C.-Baltimore region . We ’re generate lots of report of mogul outages and some terms ( Exactly how much is unclear ) . Metro report that they have no power at some stations . They have send trains back to pedigree points because of the conditions . ”
Virginia Governor Bob MacDonnell has blamed the storm for the deaths of six citizenry in that province , as well as widespread regional power outage .
big news for the Virginia … and also for the cyberspace .
Bringing Down the Cloud
Amazon ’s Elastic Compute Cloud , or EC2 , a connection avail that provides resizable compute capacity in the swarm ( fundamentally , it acts as a host for sealed website dealings and data ) , is represent of several Regions and Availability Zones — one of which , “ US East , ” just so bechance to be located in Northern Virginia .
When the storm hit Virginia , EC2 US East lost power , bringing down its certain of its clients — namely : Netflix , Instagram , Pinterest , andSocialFlow(the entanglement service Gizmodo uses to tweet report and post links to Facebook ) . This should not have find : Amazon ’s EC2 Service Level Agreement states a service commitment of 99.95 % uptime during the service year . Andit ’s not the first — or spoilt — meter .
Last month , Sam Biddle excuse to ushow to destroy the net . So it must have been fate , or destiny , or most likely karma , that at the same time the net was indeed down for the count , Sam Biddle was stick in the middle of the storm — or , to be exact , in an Amtrak power train stalled on the runway somewhere outside of Washington , DC — the inclement weather cramping his expressive style .
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-destroy-the-internet-5912383
Netflix and the others appear to all have been restored as this stop , and Instagram devotee could n’t be more proud of — or more eager to cash in on an opportunistic jest .
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