"At 7:30 AM PST, an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network. This resulted in a large surge of connection activity that overwhelmed the networking devices between the internal network and the main AWS network, resulting in delays for communication between these networks. These delays increased latency and errors for services communicating between these networks, resulting in even more connection attempts and retries."
So was this in service to something like DynamoDB or some other service?
As in, did some of those extra services that AWS offers for lockin (and that undermines open source projects with embrace and extend) bomb the mainline EC2 service?
Because this kind of smacks of "Microsoft Hidden APIs" that office got to use against other competitors. Does AWS use "special hardware capabilites" to compete against other companies offering roughtly the same service?
Yes and other cloud providers (Google, Microsoft) probably have similar. Besides special network equipment, they use PCIe accelerator/coprocessors on their hypervisors to offload all non-VM activity (Nitro instances)
So was this in service to something like DynamoDB or some other service?
As in, did some of those extra services that AWS offers for lockin (and that undermines open source projects with embrace and extend) bomb the mainline EC2 service?
Because this kind of smacks of "Microsoft Hidden APIs" that office got to use against other competitors. Does AWS use "special hardware capabilites" to compete against other companies offering roughtly the same service?