Outages
"Targeted restarts on affected infrastructure" ftw
"We need more builders who can innovate on the foundations of the internet. More internet plumbers and network janitors."
"The goal is shifting from automating recovery to sustaining continuity. When a SaaS outage occurs, resilience depends not on faster failover, but on clear processes, tested workarounds, and business-led decisions"
Incident "originated from within the EC2 internal network"
One-region trouble takes down AWS' own support tools too.
AI and consolidation drive sales, but briefly bringing down large swathes of the planet is still a drag.
"We have identified the cause and are rolling out changes to restore normal service"
"If this had been flag protected, the issue would have been caught in staging"