Amazon Web Services experienced significant error rates for a number of its cloud services in the the US-EAST-1 region ( northern Virginia data center). The disruption occurred between 2:13 AM and 8:15 AM PDT, when AWS posted that the issue was resolved.
Media websites reported that the AWS incident took down number a number of popular websites for the eastern U.S., including Netlix.
http://status.aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_l2_su
Sunday, September 20, 2015
AWS Suffers Sunday Morning Anomalies in Virginia
Sunday, September 20, 2015