Lightning strikes Amazon and Microsoft cloud services
Amazon and Microsoft lost some of their hosted services after a power utility was struck by lightning in Ireland.
Perhaps one particularly important web site operator had been ticked off by his service, or maybe there are just too many metal rods pointing out of facilities over there, we can't say, but what we can say is that the hammer of Thor hit the premises and it took them down.
"What we have is preliminary, but we want to share it with you," reads an explanation on the Amazon web site. "We understand at this point that a lighting strike hit a transformer from a utility provider to one of our Availability Zones in Dublin, sparking an explosion and fire."
