One of the action items from the previous day’s partial outage was to develop a full operational playbook for early detection, prevention, and restoration should our systems fail to properly handle any sort of intermittent loss of connectivity to storage. At 8am this effort was kicked off with explicit instructions to develop the playbook with [...]

Amazon’s cloud was struck by lightning earlier this week. And that’s the truth. On Wednesday evening at about 6:30pm Pacific time, some Amazon cloud sitters saw their floating servers disappear – and yes, the company blamed the temporary outage on a lightning strike. via Lightning strikes Amazon cloud (honest) • The Register. Lol