A lightning storm caused a malfunction in a server farm in the Amazon affects the network: problems Bainstgrm, Netflix, Fintrst
Can not access Instagram? Blame the lightning storms that stir up trouble in northern Virginia. Popular photo service problems experienced in the last hours together with access to additional services such as Netflix and Fintrst. All three common: relying on the company's cloud services from Amazon, a large farm in Virginia. And according to the latest status report of the Amazon, still this server farm power supply problems.
While Netflix and Fintrst also available intermittently, Instagram experiencing serious problems and is not completely available. The company announced the official Twitter account of the service that they are working on solving the problem, but did not present a timetable or any estimates. The big problem with service interruptions such as Instagram Mass services in minutes in which the server is not working, but setting up the system after electricity returns, while coping with the workload created by users trying to access the service.
Amazon's latest update on the subject, from 13:04 (Israel time), suggests that the company corrected the most problems in the server farm, but is still working on the reconstruction of some of the equipment. Those who still think of Amazon as a great online store, we explain that in 2002 the company launched the Amazon Web Services - cloud services for web designers and network services.
Today the central part of Microsoft's offerings is EC2 - a system that allows all interested parties to rent processing power, and thereby build a virtual machine to perform the work required of the cloud. Many Internet companies rely on this service today, what one hand gives high availability - Amazon's servers fall very rarely, but on the other hand when there is a problem, it affects a number of services simultaneously.
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