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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 widespread headaches, affecting — to name but a few — Adobe’s cloud services, Amazon’s Twitch, Docker, GitHub, iFixit, Kickstarter, Slack and Yahoo Mail. The downtime also floored Is It Down Right Now, and left Amazon unable to update its own AWS status dashboard.
A number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices were also hit by the outage, with users complaining that they were unable to switch off their lights and even ovens.
Amazon at the time blamed the fault on issues with its widely-used S3 storage service in the major US-East-1 region of data centres in Northern Virginia.
