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Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud is Not Always Safe

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NgWei Khang
Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud is Not Always Safe

It is also time-saving, cost-effective, and extremely scalable service for all sorts of online businesses.

This is because the S3 system has been used for many years by more than 150,000 sites, as per the market research.

But such big AWS outage can affect the normal functioning of various websites, including, Medium, Expedia, and Health Commission.

According to the associates of Amazon, this outage was the result of a ‘human error’ when certain employees were fixing some billing issues in their system.

They mentioned in a post that an authorized member of their S3 team was using a developed playbook while executing a command that was supposed to eliminate small servers from one of their S3 subsystems during the S3 billing process.

Due to this error, Amazon had to check and restart all the services and systems again and it tools several hours to do so.

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