1. Amazon Virginia Data Center Outage Causes Downtime for Reddit, Heroku

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    Amazon Virginia Data Center Outage Causes Downtime for Reddit, Heroku

    An outage at Amazon‘s US East data center in Virginia was to blame Monday morning when many of its customers including Foursquare, Reddit, and Heroku saw downtime, according to a report by GigaOm. This marks the second time in four months that problems at the facility have led to customer dowtime. In late June, the facility experienced two outages caused by lightning and lengthened by software bugs in the AWS infrastructure. As its oldest and largest data center, Amazon’s East facility in Virginia is its most popular data center with many companies deploying their workloads at the site.

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