For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn’t exist in any room — it’s spread across the entire world. Virtual computers are now supercomputers.
Amazon’s EC2 cloud storage service had some problems while we were all sleeping last night (Read: IT CRASHED), causing a few websites we’ve come to know and love to take a brief nap (Read: THEY CRASHED).