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In this ZeroHedge article, Amazon’s cloud dominance gets another reminder that even the digital world still depends on very physical infrastructure.
- Amazon Web Services reported disruptions after a “loss of power during a thermal event” at a Northern Virginia data center.
- The issue affected EC2 instances and EBS volumes in one Availability Zone, use1-az4, within the US-EAST-1 region.
- AWS said mitigation and recovery efforts were still underway as of early Friday morning.
- The company shifted traffic away from the affected zone for most services.
- AWS told customers to use other Availability Zones in US-EAST-1 while recovery continued.
- The article notes that other zones were reportedly unaffected.
- AWS said restoring additional cooling capacity was taking longer than expected.
- Coinbase reported overnight service disruptions tied to failures in the affected AWS Availability Zone.
- AWS did not disclose what specifically caused the “thermal event.”
Read the full story: https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/thermal-event-triggers-service-disruptions-amazon-aws-cloud-hub-northern-virginia
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