Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It

Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It:

As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains, "scary winds," lightning and massive power outages in the D.C. area. Follow Up: Crazy Weather And The Real Cost Of Cloud Computing, Add Your Thoughts Amazon EC2 runs