(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Some clouds can simply eliminate others.
At 11.21pm EST last night, as the deep and the desperate began to settle down for a weekend of streaming movies and retro photography, thunder and lightning decided to bring a natural end to their plans.
Forbes reported that such bastions of modern entertainment as Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram were eliminated from the firmament.
The cause was reportedly an outage at Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia, brought on by a thunder and lightning show. Yes, Amazon's clouds are actually Earth-based.
Naturally, as panic ensued across so many smoke-filled living rooms, companies tried to placate the enraged.
Netflix sent out a tweet of apology, as did Instagram.
(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Pinterest, for its part, was very clear about the cause. In its apologetic tweet, it offered the phrase "server outages," not the vague "te... [Read more]
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