What broke Amazon’s cloud

Amazon Web Services is no stranger to scale. Gartner estimated earlier this year that it has ten times the amount of IaaS capacity as all of its next 14 competitors in the market – combined. But it seems that AWS wasn’t quite prepared for the impact that a new feature in its DynamoDB database would have, causing a significant outage on Sunday in it’s US-East region.

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