Thanks to Mother Nature two of my favorite web sites went down today.
Severe thunderstorms in North Virginia caused an outage to the Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, which took down Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix and other cloud based sites.
Although the sites have a local hub here in Asia, it appears that all services are still routed to North America. Hence, this problem.
I tried loading some pictures on Instagram and either I waited for eternity for the site to come up or I just got pieces of it. Netizens expressed their frustrations on Twitter and and the affected companies also took to social networking sites to send their messages that they're having some technical problems and were fixing it.
It's not the first time that Amazon's cloud server was affected by outages due to weather. Many tech experts are beginning to worry that this may lead some industries to have second thoughts on embracing the cloud technology.
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