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27th July 2008 - Link Blog

Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008. Don’t let the newspeak put you off; this is an honest and informative description of the bug that took down S3 last Sunday, although it does include the world’s longest way of saying “we turned it off and on again”.

Posted 27th July 2008 at 5:42 pm

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