Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies.
Some very big players, too, such as InterContinental Hotels Group and Yelp, due to a lightning storm downing the off-site data centers run by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
At 11:10 pm EST on Friday 29 June, Room 77′s engineering team received an automated notification from its alert system that its website was down, which signaled the start of a 19-hour outage that also affected Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram.
Like many start-ups, Room 77 relies on web hosting and data services that are hosted in the cloud by rented computing capacity via huge data centers run by Amazon.
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