It's always us-east-1
Today: Monday's big AWS outage illustrates yet again why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing, further evidence that bitcoin mining is so very 2019 these days, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Deep down, most people knew it couldn't last. But the remarkable run enjoyed by enterprise software companies and their investors over more than a decade came to an abrupt end in 2022, and the new order is still sorting itself out.