Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications

What's to be learnt from the #AXWOutage? At least this:

1. #ItsAlwaysDNS
2. Most of the so-called #IoT is stupid and should be rethought. (Ed. note: it's mostly a scheme to scrape more data about consumers to exploit & sell; not a structure to make consumers' lives better or cheaper.)