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Presumably there were more failures than a single engineer could've been responsible for here.
by zymhan 6y ago
Presumably there were more failures than a single engineer could've been responsible for here.
- fjcp 6y agoIts absolutely possible, the worst AWS outage was caused by one engineer running the wrong command [0]. "This past Tuesday morning Pacific Time an Amazon Web Services engineer was debugging an issue with the billing system for the company’s popular cloud storage service S3 and accidentally mistyped a command. What followed was a several hours’ long cloud outage that wreaked havoc across the internet and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for AWS customers and others who rely on third-party services hosted by AWS." [0] - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/02/aws-outage-that-broke-the-internet-caused-by-mistyped-command https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/02/aws-...