Amazon says a typo caused its cloud-computing service to fail earlier this week. On Tuesday, part of Amazon Web Services stopped working. The company’s so-called simple storage service, or S3, provides features ranging from file sharing to web feeds. The company did not elaborate on what, exactly, the “authorized S3 team member” mistyped, but did say that it took about three hours to get some of the system back up, and more than four hours before the S3 system was back to normal.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518322734/amazon-and-the-150-million-typo
