System Failure, Not Human Error
Learn about the Amazon outage, how human error has its consequences and how anomalies can be interpreted.
Amazon outage
Amazon clearly states that:
"[a]n authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.”
Parsing that just a little bit, we can understand that someone mistyped a command. First and foremost, whoever that was has our deepest ...