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A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

1 month 2 weeks ago
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.…

Dan Robinson

SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs

1 month 2 weeks ago
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings

SAP disappointed investors today after reporting full-year cloud revenue at the bottom end of its guidance range, with execs saying customers in manufacturing and the public sector are taking longer to sign contracts.…

Lindsay Clark