1. The real story behind the AWS outage and what it means for investors

    The real story behind the AWS outage and what it means for investors

    By now you’ve probably heard that a power outage in northern Virginia took out a significant number of high-profile customers of Amazon’s vaunted AWS service on Thursday night. And if you’re an investor in Amazon, you might be feeling a little nervous that a glitch in the system could cause sites like Heroku, Quora and Pinterest to go dark for several hours.

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