Folks who've worked in the data center industry for a while tend to have their squirrel stories. Mike Christian, who runs business continuity for Yahoo, shared his recently during a keynote at the recent O'Reilly Velocity conference in a...

Amazon Web Services says that the failure of multiple generators in a single data center caused last Friday night's power outage, which led to downtime for Netflix, Instagram and many other popular web sites.

Computer problems with the Amadeus reservation system caused long lines and traveler delays at airports across Australia this weekend. The outage appears to be related to the "Leap Second Bug," as the addition of a single second to the world's...

An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night, causing extended downtime for services includng Netflix, Heroku, Pinterest and many others. The incident occurred as a powerful electrical storm struck the Washington...

Last week's outage at Amazon Web Services was triggered by a series of failures in the power infrastructure in a northern Virginia data center, including the failure of a generator cooling fan while the facility was on emergency power.

A power outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia last night knocked some customers offline. Among the sites affected were Heroku, Pinterest, Quora and HootSuite, along with a host of smaller sites.