Amazon blames automated capacity scaling program for major outage last week

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An automated programme to scale capacity caused outage, Amazon says
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An automated programme to scale capacity caused outage, Amazon says

The company expects to release a new version of Service Health Dashboard next year to resolve the problem

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Friday that an automated process in its cloud computing unit caused the massive outage that brought down several websites, apps and streaming platforms worldwide l...

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