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"Thermal Event" Triggers Service Disruptions At Amazon AWS Cloud Hub In Northern Virginia
"Thermal Event" Triggers Service Disruptions At Amazon AWS Cloud Hub In Northern Virginia
Amazon Web Services said that recovery efforts are still underway after a "loss of power during a thermal event" disrupted a Northern Virginia data center on Thursday evening.
"Mitigation efforts remain underway to resolve the impaired EC2 instances and degraded EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone (use1-az4) in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS wrote on its Service Health page, indicating that its operational issue for "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia)" remained "impacted" as of early Friday morning.
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