"Unfortunately, this is not the kind of "new cloud" they were hoping to develop. Apparently, one of their under-construction datacenters in Ashburn, VA caught fire yesterday. Thankfully, it appears that it was controlled and injury-free, but still deals a setback to the opening of this new availability zone in US-East-1. You can read more detail about the fire in Business Insider's Story on the incident.  The key takeaway I had from this article was that a spokeswoman from AWS confirmed that they were to be the main tenant of this new datacenter being built in the area. Additionally, there are two datacenters in the area (including this one) being constructed with AWS as the primary tenant -- new AZs, anyone? This likely means constraints in US-East-1 are reaching all time highs, and these are relief AZs to be released over the coming months. It also means AWS is aggressively acquiring new facilities to continue their massive growth trajectory -- which is great news for all of us geeks." - CW