Massive AWS outage was caused by adding new servers to Kinesis

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Red-faced Amazon says it will apply lessons learned to improve the reliability of its services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed the actual cause of the massive outage that impacted thousands of online sites and services, including Amazon's own services, last week. According to the c...

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