For generations now, AWSome Day has been one of our most cherished holidays. In a time of turmoil and strife, AWSome Day offers us all a chance to take a step back, relax, and undergo essential training to get our cloud businesses off the ground. For as long as anyone can remember, AWSome Day has passed without incident. And today looked to be just like any other AWSome Day, as you can see from this tweet.

But as the sun rose above Edinburgh this morning, terrible things were afoot on the S3 servers. For reasons that are still unknown, Amazon’s web hosting service collapsed this morning. And when it did, it took…

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