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Yesterday, we were Slashdotted. We had turned off caching the night before to test something with our sidebar, and didn’t figure /. would pick up Edgar’s piece, so we left it off. Naturally, the traffic crush hit and HTMList became unavailable at around noon, PST.

I’ll go into some more detail on what we did to bring things back up and keep the site available in another post, but suffice to say, we moved our background image, subscribe/RSS feed image and Synapse Studios logo over to S3 to help take some of the load off. And of course, S3 went down today.

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GigaOM caught up with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at the D6 conference this week. A lot of people on Wall Street have been struggling to make the somewhat obvious connection between Amazon as a retailer and Amazon as a web service provider. The background to the concept is really pretty self-evident: Amazon needed to develop amazing tools for their own internal scalability and data management needs and in doing so, determined they could scale those tools, make them available to developers for their own applications and commoditize the marketplace. So they did, as we describe after the jump.

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