Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage « Data Center Knowledge

Some customers of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service were offline for more than four hours Wednesday night after an electrical storm damaged power equipment at one of the company’s data centers. The problems began at about 6:30 pm Pacific time, and most affected customers were back online by 11 p.m., according to Amazon’s status dashboard. The company said the outage was limited to customers in one of Amazon’s four availability zones in the U.S.
(Link: Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage « Data Center Knowledge)