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The net says it is mostly on the East coast but I am in California just a few miles from Netflix HQ and it is down for me on my iPad. I should try on the Apple TV since they mentioned that it is working on other devices. I will be curious to hear the post mortem of the outage from both AWS and Netflix. The timing I am sure doesn't help with Christmas Eve around the corner and probably many engineers not reachable quickly.

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Interesting to see that the outage is in fact all over the place as the comments below are showing: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/netflix.com.html

Apple TV in St. Paul, MN failed so I don't think the east coast thing is true. Parents are not happy campers. I get the feeling all iOS devices are include.

If Netflix can deactivate clients based on device size; that'd be pretty neat. People on tablets–Netflix on my Nexus 7 is out–would usually be watching stuff alone (kids may huddle around an iPad though) and for Christmas, a movie on a large screen is probably more important to keep going.

Makes me think that apps should consider using Push notifications to tell consumers about issues; e.g. instead of a cryptic error number; say something like "Netflix servers are overloaded at the moment, NetFlix may not work on your mobile device".

Not sure if that will piss off people more, but something like that instead of an error number would probably be better.

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