AWS S3 outage blamed on employee's typo

Carly Page
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Firm say it will make "several changes" to prevent recurrence

AMAZON HAS REVEALED that a simple typo was behind the massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage earlier that downed websites earlier this week. The outage struck on Wednesday, and caused widespre...

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