According to Amazon, an early-morning "networking event" sent its EC2 cloud service into a state of online disarray, completely stranding its customers websites.

From the CNN Article:

Jason Glassberg, co-founder of security outfit Casaba LLC, called the issue "a big ol' black eye" for Amazon.

"Reliability is probably the No. 1 concern with cloud services," he said. "Amazon has worked long and hard to convince folks that their services were robust. This does not help the cause."

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