Amazon's log of all service interruptions reports that Amazon's CloudFront, the US Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic MapReduce, Mechanical Turk (Requester), Mechanical Turk (Worker), Simple Queue Service, and SimpleDB services were affected.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) detected a period of elevated packet loss from around 12:30 to 12:45pm PDT Sunday in a single availability zone, which escalated to a period of elevated packet loss in all four availability zones in us-east-1 from about 1:30 to 2pm PDT.
According to Amazon’s “health dashboard,” which keeps a running log of all service interruptions, Amazon services that were affected included CloudFront, the US Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic MapReduce, Mechanical Turk (Requester), Mechanical Turk (Worker), Simple Queue Service, and SimpleDB.
The Sunday outages follows a June 11 disruption at one of its data centers caused by lightning, which hit a single power distribution unit in a single availability zone, disabling a set of racks and the instances ran on them for seven hours. Amazon has not yet released a statement on the cause of the Sunday outage.
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/061209_Amazon_Blames_EC2_Outage_on_Lightening
Since its August 2006 debut, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud has had a number of other roadbumps, including disruptions in February and October 2008.
Because other cloud computing services depend on Amazon for their hosting, the impact of Amazon Web Service outages is often amplified.
