AWS celebrates Labor Day weekend by toasting customer data in US-East-1 BBQ

Postmortem report: Power outage roasted instances, volumes for unlucky punters

A power outage fried hardware within one of Amazon Web Services' data centers during America's long Labor Day weekend. Backup generators also failed, virtual server instances evaporated, and cloud-hosted data was lost and had to be restored from backups, where possible, we're told.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/aws_server_outage/