Since it happened on a weekend, either someone did something stupid on a weekend, a routine operational task went wrong, something bumped into a limit, or there was a complex interaction of systems (all the best outages involve a complex interaction where it's actually hard to assign blame). I'd rally only be worried in the first case.
Honestly, given the headlines of the past few weeks this is a fair joke, but in my experience they do not fire people for outages like this. Anything that can take down retail or AWS at large is considered a design problem, not a human error problem that deserves termination.
1. Even before the past few weeks of articles, anecdotes from people I know have always indicated that Amazon is a pretty brutal company so I am surprised by that.
2. Is it just a matter of delayed impact on you? Would it come up in reviews later?
The entire premise of the article is that Assange is good because he might have saved us from the Iraq war, while completely ignoring his alliance with Trump and disinformation like Seth Rich conspiracy. We can't prove the counterfactual but we can see what he actually did.
Note that you unwittingly confirm parent's point on tribalism and sides by discounting Assange based on Trump. There are valid points to be made against both but guilt by association should not be one of them.
