Tag: EC2 Instances

AWS Outage Exposes Data Center Vulnerabilities Amid Surge in AI-Driven Innovations A “thermal event” at a single Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered a multi-hour outage in the critical US-EAST-1 region, disrupting services for high-profile customers like FanDuel and Coinbase during peak usage on May 7-8, 2026. Amazon’s post-incident analysis revealed…