AWS cloudsplains what happened to S3 storage on Monday

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Person watching light column in cloud of blocks AWS took a lot of heat when its S3 storage component went down for several hours on Monday, and rightly so, but today they published a post-mortem explaining exactly what happened complete with technical details and how they plan to prevent a similar event from occurring again in the future. At the core of the problem was unsurprisingly human error. Some poor engineer, we’ll call him… Read More