Amazon Is Blaming This For Its Cloud Services Outage

Amazon reported “high error rates” in one region of its S3 web services on Tuesday and was actively working on “remediating the issue.” According to SimilarTech, the S3 system is used by 148,213 sites.

Needless to say, many sites were down or had trouble with their features.

So who was to blame, or what was to blame for an outage that lasted around four hours?

Amazon is blaming human error on the disruption of its cloud services.

The company revealed in a blog post on Thursday that an incorrect command led to the removal of a larger set of servers than intended.

Amazon said it will make changes to improve the recovery time of its key S3 subsystems.

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