Comment by jbinto

I don't believe it was a DDoS, but Route 53 stopped resolving records for Cloudfront distributions for a few hours on Nov 26 2014.

This affected everyone who uses CloudFront (which is a lot), including Amazon.com itself. There, all product images were timing out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665367

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/11/26/in-response-...