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Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage

Posted by samzenpus on from the methinks-thou-dost-protest-too-much dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has officially denied that the recent outage of its EC2 and Elastic Block Storage cloud platforms was the result of an attack from Cyberdyne Systems' Skynet sentient computer system, declaring humanity safe after all. 'From the information I have and to answer your questions,' a spokesperson explained, 'Skynet did not have anything to do with the service event at this time.'"

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  1. Oh, haha. by cyberfin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A humorous comment from Amazon. Many clients, not laughing.

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    "I'm taking this loop off." - Jack O'Neill
    1. Re:Oh, haha. by 0racle · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Did you read the thread at forums.aws.amazon.com? The Skynet denial was in direct response to suggestions that Skynet had compromised EC2. Besides, Amazon is not a single entity. The guy posting the denial probably has lots of time on his hands while others work on the problem.

      People need to relax. Bitching and moaning about things doesn't make them happen any faster, and this response didn't slow things down at all.

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      "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  2. Re:Well, that's a relief! by donotlizard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm glad that the people at Amazon think their outage is so humorous.