Severe thunderstorms in the eastern part of the United States forced several prominent websites offline and adversely affected others Friday night into Saturday, according to various media reports this weekend.

According to John Letzing of the Wall Street Journal, electrical storms in Virginia disrupted power for Amazon.com’s cloud-computing operations on the evening of June 29.

The disruptions at the database and web services center in that state began at approximately 11:21pm EDT Friday night, which in turn led to issues at several clients using Amazon’s services, including video streaming service Netflix, photo-sharing network Instagram, and social media website Pinterest.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1gvkV)

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