After an outage that took down multiple websites and services, Amazon explains an incorrectly-typed input caused the chaos. The company also outlined plans to prevent such problems in the future.
Now that the smoke has cleared and the hours-long Amazon Web Services incident that took large parts of the internet offline is over, Amazon is offering an explanation for the chaos. According to the company, what took web sites and services such as Slack, Medium and Giphy down was a typo.
Amazon explained some of its S3 servers were operating sluggishly, so a team member tried correcting the problem by taking a few billing servers offline.
