Amazon’s data center outage reads like a thriller
When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power one Wednesday in early December, the company wrote about the unfolding event with the brevity and tension of one its bestselling pot boilers.
An anonymous author, who we’ll call Sysadmin, begins his story simply, without emotional complications and love interests.
“We are investigating connectivity issues for instances in the US-EAST-1 region,” Sysadmin writes on Amazon’s operations status board at 1:08 a.m. PT.
With one sentence, we’re intrigued. Something’s up with Amazon’s data center in Northern Virginia, just a short drive to Washington; Tom Clancy country.
See Amazon’s data center outage reads like a thriller: The outage shows why performance monitoring services are gaining ground, by Patrick Thibodeau for Computerworld.
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