Apparent Network’s Cloud Performance Center issued a bulletin confirming Amazon Web Services experienced connectivity loss which caused an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud services outage in a single availability zone in their Northern Virginia Data Center. The outage occurred on December 9, 2009 beginning at approximately 3:34AM EST and lasted until 4:19AM EST or about 44 minutes. Amazon later confirmed the connectivity loss was due to a power failure.
Apparent Networks’ Cloud Performance Center offers a free service that tracks performance data on leading cloud service providers such as Amazon, Google and GoGrid.
http://www.appparentnetworks.com/cpc
