Amazon Web Services says overheating at North Virginia data centre disrupts services

by Theleaders | May 8, 2026 12:35 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 — Amazon’s ‌cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, said yesterday it was working to restore normal temperatures at a data centre ‌in North ⁠Virginia ⁠after overheating ⁠disrupted some services.

The ⁠incident ⁠caused a ⁠power loss that affected certain hardware, AWS said, adding ⁠that services reliant on the ⁠impacted data centre ⁠could ⁠experience “impairments”. 

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