Instagram: Amazon Outage Hits Netflix, Heroku, Pinterest, Instagram

Amazon Web Services data center loses power because of violent electrical storms, knocking out many website customers.The Instagram crash of 2012 taught us a few lessons about how Mother Nature hates you, how cloud servers work, and what Amazon needs to work on.When we heard about Instagram (and other sites) going down when Amazon Web Services' North Virginia hub was hit by a storm — not the first time AWS has gone down (April 2011 was another notable outage) we couldn'tInstagram

Read more ...