The Amazon outage was not a test or targeted outage against the public. Same way Amazon banned truth social, they can just ban anyone they deem to be problematic.

The scale of the outage and lost business was enormous. A bug related to race conditions in registering healthy nodes in a distributed system is a somewhat common theme in other major outages, it just so happens that DynamoDB in us-east-1 is on the critical path for both Amazon internal systems and customer workloads.

I need more information. AWS? I know Verizon is a telecom giant but what happened?