Internet-sized Chunk stopped working after the large Web servers (AWS) came out. This includes venmo, snapchat, canva and Fortnite – Even Amazon’s own products entered the Fritz. Your humble patron’s rings begin to turn their night lights completely off, without doing yours truly.
The company has already fixed the DNS problem that caused the outage, but a failure like this, so out of the Internet, should serve as a reminder. After all, having many very sensitive programs in the same basket means that if something goes wrong, a lot of the Internet stops working. All at the same time.
– Dan Cooper
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It is an unknown destination.
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A few small tweaks add up to a great package.
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It’s a pretty sweet thing given what’s thrown into it.
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Sony finally has a worthy competitor.
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Samsung swipe and miss.
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