Driving Lightning

I would substitute “My friend Catherine” for instances of “My cat” in tweets, but my wife wouldn’t like it. xkcd.com/1689/

Glad MIT moved the hooding ceremony to its own day. I remember it was very long, and yet the Ph.D. grads deserved every second and more.

Re MIT commencement today: For ~60 years, my great-grand aunt Julia sorted and laid out the diplomas so every grad received his/her own.

OK, outage ended at about 4 hours, only costing about $31 million in deferred (not necessarily lost) revenue.

OK, so the outage is only North America, so Amazon is really only losing $129,000 per minute (source: most recent 10-Q).

Amazon’s losses are probably less than $222,000/min because search doesn’t affect AWS, but still…..

Assuming search is required for Amazon to generate revenue, Amazon is losing about $222,000 per minute that search is down.

I guess everyone sees that Amazon search is down. This from the leading cloud computing vendor. techcrunch.com/2016/06/02/its…

Remember this: every 4 years, election results prove roughly half of the political pundits to have been dead wrong all along.

Interesting: Amazon web store search is currently broken for me — It always generates an “Oops” page.