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, ...
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Part 2 of The Colorado River Story. In the first piece I told you Lake Powell is sitting about 34 feet above the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power. This one’s about what’s underneath that line, because that’s where the story gets genuinely bad, and it’s the part almost nobody outside a handful of water nerds and environmental ...