AWS knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb offline in MEGA data collapse
Found on The Register on Sunday, 20 September 2015
Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have been hit by a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing many sites down with it in the process.
Amazon said it was recovering from the database blunder, but as part of the fix the company was forced to throttle APIs to recover the service.
That should put a little smile on the faces of those sysadmins who, after a reboot, have to deal with users who use AWS et al as a reference because of their perfect uptime.