Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet

Amazon has explained the Web Services outage that knocked parts of the internet offline for several hours on December 7th -- and promised more clarity if this happens in the future. As CNBCreports, Amazon revealed an automated capacity scaling feature led to "unexpected behavior" from internal network clients. Devices connecting that internal network to AWS were swamped, stalling communications. The nature of the failure prevented teams from pinpointing and fixing the problem, Amazon added. They...