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Amazon’s recent outage & importance of root cause

Posted on 5 Mar 2017 by Shantha Mohan
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The past week, headlines buzzed about how AWS outage was caused by human error and what Amazon was doing to address it.

  • Bloomberg: Amazon Says Employee Error Caused Tuesday’s Cloud Outage
  • NPR: Amazon And The $150 Million Typo
  • Verge: How a typo took down S3, the backbone of the internet
  • WSJ: A Typo Caused Amazon’s Big Cloud Outage
  • Recode: Amazon’s massive AWS outage was caused by human error

There is one important fact that Amazon published in its Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region that caught my attention.

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