It would be nice if this was actually broken down bit-by-bit after it happened, if only for paying customers of these cloud services.

These companies are supposed to have the top people on site reliability. That these things keep happening and no one really knows why makes me doubt them.

Alternatively,

The takeaway for today: clearly, Man was not meant to have networked, distributed computing resources.

We thought we could gather our knowledge and become omniscient, to be as the Almighty in our faculties.

The folly.

The hubris.

The arrogance.