Storm affected AWS back in action

BANGALORE, INDIA: Amazon’s Elastic Cloud service, which was knocked down by lightning during electrical storms across the eastern part of the United States, is operating normally now.

The incident happened on Friday at 8.21pm PDT taking down Amazon's AWS data centre in Northern Virginia, due to which various social media sites and online services such as Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest were affected.

Amazon, on its AWS Service Health Dashboard, updated that the services had fully recovered by approximately 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday. Although several reports say that the services were not back until late Sunday.

Amazon had confirmed that 'a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively working to restore power', on its dashboard.