AWS warns of EC2 ‘impairment’ as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region

Amazon Web Services is working to address a power outage that has created “impairments” to services served from the notorious US-EAST-1 region. A May 7 incident report time-stamped 5:25 PM PDT (00:25 UTC Friday) states that AWS spotted problems in the use1-az4 availability zone of the US-EAST-1 Region. A subsequent update states “EC2 instances and EBS volumes hosted on impacted hardware are affected by the loss of power during the thermal event.” An update time-stamped 6:47 PM PDT reveals“We con