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Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody's Bored Apes
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How does this have anything to do with layoffs? They say this every AWS outage from years ago. It was a race condition on a DNS setting that wiped out a major one. Don’t artiunute to malice which is likely stupidity. DNS is incredibly easy to eff up and impossible to alert on
I'm not saying that a disgruntled ex-employee did something, I'm saying that due to brain drain -- in part due to layoffs in the name of "cost cutting" -- AWS had no experienced staff left who knew how to not fall into one of the incredibly easy DNS pitfall traps, and moreover, this had a direct impact on recovery time. It is 100% stupidity at an upper management level.