What Caused the AWS Outage – and Why Has It Made the Internet Fall Apart?
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diegocg
3 months ago
At this point it would seem that the cause for the current outages goes beyond the original DNS issue.
ChrisArchitect
3 months ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
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