The Washington Post ran a story this morning about a desert town that came within weeks of dry taps, with a warning that others are lined up behind it. The town is Kearny, Arizona. Two thousand people in Pinal County, about an hour and a half southeast of Phoenix, built in the 1950s to house the crews working the Ray ...
At 6:40 this morning Eastern, people started tapping their phones at the register and nothing happened. Apple Pay was down. DoorDash was down. Reddit, Hulu, PlayStation, all of it, gone. Not because those companies did anything wrong. Because a single Amazon Web Services region in Oregon coughed. AWS didn’t officially admit anything until 4:40 a.m. Pacific, which is 7:40 Eastern, ...