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Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really)

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the better-than-ball-lightning-in-the-cage dept.

The Register has details on a recent EC2 outage that is being blamed on a lightning strike that zapped a power distribution unit of the data center. The interruption only lasted around 6 hours, but the irony should last much longer. "While Amazon was correcting the problem, it told customers they had the option of launching new server instances to replace those that went down. But customers were also able to wait for their original instances to come back up after power was restored to the hardware in question."

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  1. Re:Irony? by evanbd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps that's the problem. I think lightning rods are supposed to be more coppery than irony.

  2. God here... by Deus.1.01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the message clear?

    -RMS

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  3. Re:What irony? by mail2345 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the poster means popular irony, not irony as it actually means. Popular irony is like getting a fly in your white wine. Regular irony is not wearing your tin foil hat on the one day someone actually does beam thoughts into your brain.

  4. Re:What irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regular irony is not wearing your tin foil hat on the one day someone actually does beam thoughts into your brain.

    Nope. You've still got it wrong... That's still Morissette irony.

  5. Re:What irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real irony here is that tinfoil hats are actually required in order to beam thoughts into your head...

  6. Re:Lightning once striked my friends house. by Kotoku · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the civilized world, we just call those "walk through holes" doors.

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