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Amazon Northern Virginia AWS Data Center Takes Down Netflix On Christmas Eve
Posted by: Netflix Down ()
Date: December 26, 2012 11:02PM

Where is the Amazon AWS East -1 Data Center in Northern Virginia? Anybody know?


For the third time this year, problems with Amazon’s AWS in Northern Virginia has knocked several websites and services offline, including Netflix. According to AWS’ Service Health Dashboard, problems began at 1:50 PM PST, and as of 5:49 PM, the company is continuing ”to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. Traffic for some ELBs are currently experiencing significant levels of traffic loss.”

Netflix has confirmed they are being affected by these issues, acknowledging this outage couldn’t happen at a worse time as families and friends are gathered together – and likely getting bored. Via Twitter, Netflix said “We’re sorry for the Christmas Eve outage. Terrible timing! Engineers are working on it now. Stay tuned to @Netflixhelps for updates.” Netflix cloud architect Adrian Cockroft also said that this is only affecting only certain devices, though many users have reported gaming consoles and connected TVs have gone offline.


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As of 6:45 PST, Netflix is still down, and AWS has not resolved the problems in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Update: As of 8:46 PM PST, AWS and Netflix are still experiencing issues. According to the AWS Service Health Dashboard, “We continue to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. The issues are affecting both existing and newly created ELBs.” Netflix reports, via Twitter, “we’re working on it.”

Update #2: As of 10:20 PM PST, AWS reports via the Service Health Dashboard, “We continue to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. The issues are affecting both existing and newly created ELBs. While we are in the process of recovering the service, API calls for creating, modifying, or deleting ELBs will be disabled. We expect to restore full API service once the issues are resolved. We apologize for the impact of these issues on our customers.”

Additionally, Netflix has told customers they do not know when the issues will be resolved.

Update #3: Finally, at 8:45 a.m. PST on 12/25, everything is back up and running. Netflix tweeted, “Special thanks to our awesome members for being patient. We’re back to normal streaming levels. We hope everyone has a great holiday.”

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Re: Amazon Northern Virginia AWS Data Center Takes Down Netflix On Christmas Eve
Posted by: Scavenger Hunting ()
Date: December 27, 2012 04:52AM

Netflix Down Wrote:
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> Where is the Amazon AWS East -1 Data Center in
> Northern Virginia? Anybody know?
>

There are so many data centers in Northern Virginia.

If it's a leased space within a commercial data center, my guess is one of the Cogent, Savvis or Equinix centers in Ashburn or Sterling.

http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/

There's a bunch of private data centers along 28 between 267 and 7, as well. Amazon could own several of those.

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