In a recap of the week’s top stories, an AWS outage affects popular websites, Tech Data closes its Avnet Technology Services acquisition, and 2nd Watch nabs more funding.
Amazon Web Services Thursday said an employee trying to debug its billing system entered a command incorrectly, resulting in the four-hour outage that disrupted service to Amazon S3 clients earlier this week. In a post-mortem detailing the events that led to Tuesday’s high-profile cloud outage, AWS apologized for the impact of the outage and outlined the changes it is making to prevent the problem from occurring again.
