Late in the week, an Amazon Web Services outage affected a range of websites. In the wake of that outage, which lasted from Thursday into Friday, Amazon has revealed what happened.
In an update on the official AWS status website, Amazon revealed that the outage was caused by a “thermal event resulting in a loss of power” at a single data center in northern Virginia. In other words, some tech overheated. This prompted Amazon to shift traffic away from that data center’s “Availability Zone” during the late afternoon on Thursday. By early afternoon on Friday, Amazon had managed to restore its cooling systems, which kick-started the process of getting everything back online.
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