AWS celebrates Labor Day weekend by toasting customer data in US-East-1 BBQ

Postmortem report: Power outage roasted instances, volumes for unlucky punters

A power outage fried hardware within one of Amazon Web Services' data centers during America's long Labor Day weekend. Backup generators also failed, virtual server instances evaporated, and cloud-hosted data was lost and had to be restored from backups, where possible, we're told.…

from The Register