East Coast storm rocks Netflix, Instagram

The three companies suffered major interruptions to their Web services to people everywhere afterwards the huge storm knocked the power from an Amazon data center that the sites rely on. The companies took to social networks to tell their users what was happening.

This was the second outage at the same Amazon Region in the last month, which Wired says is not good for the Internet company because Amazon represents its cloud computing platform as a more reliable option than other data centers.