A data center operated by Amazon Web Services in northern Virginia experienced power issues on the morning of Wednesday, December 9.

“Amazon didn’t name the location of the facility, but Amazon Web Services is known to operate a data center near McLean, Va.,” writes InformationWeek’s Charles Babcock. “Amazon posted a set of one-line status reports on the incident on its Service Health Dashboard as it sought to restore customer workloads after an apparent power outage.”

“Amazon public relations representatives did not immediately respond to a request for information on the cause of the outage, referring only to the dashboard listings,” Babcock writes.

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