October 31, 2012 09:02 AM
When Hurricane Sandy hurled a blow at the data center-rich territory of northern N.J., the New York City metropolitan area and northern Virginia Monday, some large sites survived intact.
Amazon Web Services, with its U.S. East–1 complex in Ashburn, Va., and Equinix, with seven locations in New York and additional data centers in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Buffalo and northern N.J., reported that service was holding up in most instances, despite the storm.
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More >>The Amazon Health Services dashboard reported no outages except for its CloudFront, content distribution network, which experienced "elevated error rates for content delivered out of several edge locations" between 3:40 and 5:10 p.m. EST Monday.
Other sources, on the other hand, reported at least isolated Amazon server instance outages. Compuware said its Outage Analyzer service had tracked "more than a dozen outage events on the East Coast during (Monday) afternoon and evening."
[ Lower Manhattan data centers faced special problems. See Hurricane Sandy Surge Challenges NYC Data Centers. ]
The outages included "intermittent Amazon EC2 East outages that affected hundreds of domains, as well as outages with other shared services," wrote Colin Mason,
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