Since it happened on a weekend, either someone did something stupid on a weekend, a routine operational task went wrong, something bumped into a limit, or there was a complex interaction of systems (all the best outages involve a complex interaction where it's actually hard to assign blame). I'd rally only be worried in the first case.
I would legitimately probably cry.
I mean and it's Amazon of all places, the least forgiving of the tech companies.
the question is: would you be at your desk?
They will be assigned to performance management, but nobody will tell them.
Or high-fiving his fellow state sponsored hackers… A lot of outages and problems in major sites these past few months.
What tangible value could a state sponsor get from Amazon being down even just a few hours?