technology seems to be at odds with climate issues O This is clear from the event that, since yesterday, affects various social networks and services of our smartphonesthat require an internet connection or, as it is now known, that work on the cloud Specifically, we refer to the Instagram, Netflix or Pinterest, which, along with others, have stopped working due to storms that are dropping a strong electrical item on the Eastern side of the United States
But how does this weather phenomenon affect users in all over the world ? The reason is simple. The key is in the state of Virginia of the aforementioned country, where the Amazon EC2 servers are located(Elastic Computer Cloud). These host the data of the aforementioned social networks and services, so that theSuffer massive power outages prevent users from connecting with their accounts and content
For this reason, users of Instagram, famous photo retouching social network , they have not been able to publish their retouched photos or even be able to consult other people's photos since Friday.Something that seems to have bothered enough, or enough people, that in no time Instagram has become hot topic mundial or Trending Topic on another social network: Twitter Also in Spain, still today Saturday (take into account the time lag of 6 hoursbetween the East Coast of the United States and our country), continues to be hot topic thanks to humorous comments that are mixed with the complaints of some users of Instagram
It is precisely in the social network of the 140 characters where it has been made official the Instagram incident thanks to a couple of messages or tweets sent from several of your accounts. “We are experiencing technical difficulties and are working to resolve them.Thanks for your patience” is the first of those messages. Hours later they gave more information about what happened: “Due to severe electrical storms, our server has suffered a cut, no data has been lost. We have been working through the night to restore the system”.
At this moment we already know that the Instagram service has been restored, although not completely There are still problems with posting photos as well as uploading the contentsof the new Explore section or your own user profile It is likely that in the In the next few hours, weather permitting, Instagram will be back to full capacity While It seems that Twitter meets the needs left by the service of the photography social network
But, as we mentioned, there are more downed services because of the storms who are especially targeting the state of Virginia Among them two other employees of the same servers have been known Amazon EC2 Specifically, they would be Netflix, a well-known movie and TV show rental service that is not yet available in our country, and Pinterest, another social network that has become very famous for a few months by presenting a new system for sharing content and personal likes. It seems that these services have been completely restored at this time
