Werner Vogels: "Root cause was single bit corruption of internal state messages that are distributed via Gossip techniques."
Interesting - Amazon using gossip to propagate information. Presumably this is done to reduce the overall number of calls and avoid any central point of failure.
Which means no rumour control:)
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Amazon's Dynamo paper (Section 4.8) mentions using a gossip protocol.
Given where Werner comes from this was probably in his conditions for the position :-)