FYI Netflix is down

Sat Jun 30 20:13:28 UTC 2012

The interesting thing to me is the us population by time zone. If amazon has 70% of servers in the eastern time zone it makes some sense. 

Mountain + pacific is smaller than central, which is a bit more than half eastern. These stats are older but a good rough gauge:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714986

Jared Mauch

On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:

> On 6/30/12 12:04 PM, Todd Underwood wrote:
>> This was not a cascading failure.  It was a simple power outage
>> 
>> Cascading failures involve interdependencies among components.
>> 
> 
> I guess I'm assuming there were UPS and generator systems involved (and
> failing) with powering the critical load, but I suppose it could all be
> direct to utility power.
> 
> ~Seth