There Goes The Weekend! Pinterest, Instagram And Netflix Down Due To AWS Outage [Updated]

Are you out at a Friday night dinner somewhere, trying to take a filtered picture of some fancypants dessert and post it to Instagram with no avail? Are you currently making futile efforts to pin said desset it to your “Fancy Dessert” board on Pinterest but failing?

Well you’re out of luck digital hipsters! Because of storms in North Virginia, power outages have impaired Amazon Web Services data centers in the region tonight, which means no Pinterest, Instagram, Netflix, Heroku and other sundry AWS-dependent services for you.

According to the AWS outage dashboard the company is ONIT, yet, as of 12:31 PST, it is only at 50% recovery.

This service outage inevitably begs the question: If someone takes an iPhone pic of an Friday night artisanal beer, and it’s not posted on Instagram, does it make a sound?

As one HackerNews commentator put it, “No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.” Too true.

‘Night guys.

Update: As of 9.34AM GMT (1.34AM Pacific), selected services running through Amazon’s North Virginia servers are back up. Instagram still appears to be down, though.

Also: this outage is just covering users in North America. Users in Europe, Asia and South America should still be fine. We’ll keep checking and updating.