Screwing up Australia's census with IBM's cloud: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/09/australian_census_slips_in_the_ibm_cloud/
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From Forbes:
There is a recent example of a similar failure: In 2014, Australian retailer Myer suffered an outage to its online store on Boxing day that lasted over a week. The underlying vendor in that example was also IBM. It seems the company, or at least its Australian arm, has learned little about how to build robust online systems in the two years hence.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2016/08/10/cloud-hangs-over-ibm-after-australian-census-catastrophe
"The IBM web sphere technology upon which the 2016 Census is built has not been battle tested and most likely contains inefficient and bloated code," he said.
"DNS errors, HTTP errors [and] unknown error codes highlight the poor quality of software engineering within.
Census was delivered by technology company IBM using its Australian SoftLayer cloud. Figures from the Australian Government's procurement agency AusTender show IBM was paid $9,606,725 in 2014 to design, develop and implement the "eCensus".
What's the average now, 1 screw-up per day?