Me too! In my case postfix locked up and stopped sending mail there was a massive queue. I checked the logs and saw the same second twice and that's when I learned about leap seconds. Since then I have a reminder in my calendar every 6 months to check if ones been announced. Thankfully we've only had two.
I gave it the job of modifying a fairly simple regex replacement and it took a while over 5 minutes, claude failed on the same prompt (which surprised me), codex did a similar job but faster. So all in all not bad!
I still use perl. It's my go to for string parsing (think pipe log file, do something with it and send it to stdout). It's also my go to for anything that I still want to work in 10 years.
Generally expect issues for the rest of the day, AWS will recover slowly, then anyone that relies on AWS will recovery slowly. All the background jobs which are stuck will need processing.
Same. I automatically assume that all information I send to any organisation will end up on the Internet sooner or later be it by accident or sold to some shady third party.
Same thing happened to me over 20 years ago back then it was common to get domain hosting email all from one provider. They hiked up the price to something extortionate and changed the owner details on the domain to themselves cost me a fair penny to get that back from then on I kept my domain email and hosting all separate and stuck with what are hopefully more reputable providers. And of course these days if it happened I'd go straight to legal action something that young me didn't think of.