{"id":2427,"date":"2012-07-02T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/02\/storms-take-amazon-cloud-down-were-you-affected\/"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T09:50:01","slug":"storms-take-amazon-cloud-down-were-you-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/storms-take-amazon-cloud-down-were-you-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms take Amazon cloud down \u2013 were you affected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency reported worldwide cloud outages cost at least &pound;45m over five years, the all-encompassing Amazon EC2 Cloud was down on Friday night due to heavy storms in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>From approximately 2300 EST on Friday users were unable to access various sites utilising the Amazon infrastructure cloud, including Pinterest, Netflix and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s certainly more proof that real clouds can have an effect on cloud computing. This particular storm was deadly, with the death toll as high as 17 across eastern America.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services&rsquo; (AWS) status board is a healthy sea of green as of Monday morning, but July 30 and 31 was a different story in the North America region with the EC2, Relational Database Service (RDS) and Elastic Beanstalk clouds in Virginia affected across both days.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from AWS at 2321 EST on Friday said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency reported worldwide cloud outages cost at least &pound;45m over five years, the all-encompassing Amazon EC2 Cloud was down on Friday night due to heavy storms in Virginia.<br \/>\nFr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}