Off-Prem
Things are heating up in a single datacenter, but not in a good way
Amazon Web Services is working to address a power outage that has created “impairments” to services served from the notorious US-EAST-1 region.
A May 7 incident report time-stamped 5:25 PM PDT (00:25 UTC Friday) states that AWS spotted problems in the use1-az4 availability zone of the US-EAST-1 Region. A subsequent update states “EC2 instances and EBS volumes hosted on impacted hardware are affected by the loss of power during the thermal event.”
An update time-stamped 6:47 PM PDT reveals“We continue to work towards mitigating the increased temperatures to its normal levels,” but warns “Other AWS services that depend on the affected EC2 instances…
