Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
column 'It's always DNS' is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…