Question posted by mcbride1 on June 29th, 2012

Netflix Account Stated That I Needed An Update. I Tried And Now Can't Connect

netflix account stated that i needed an update. I tried and now can't connect

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Answer #1: Posted by auxumn on June 29th, 2012 10:41 PM
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An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. PT.

Amazon’s service health dashboard indicates that there are power issues in its North Virginia data center, most likely caused by severe storms in the region. The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers.

Independent checks by VentureBeat of Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and Heroku show each site not operating. Netflix has acknowledged the issue on its customer support Twitter account:

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