IDG Contributor Network: How a typo took down Amazon's cloud

On Tuesday, tens of thousands of websites including Quora, Medium, and Giphy were taken down as servers with the Amazon Web Service (AWS) crashed for a few hours. People immediately speculated about what had caused such a serious crash, with ideas ranging from a software bug to even a massive DDOS attack.But as Amazon revealed, the cause behind the server crash was that a “command was entered incorrectly” – or in other words, a typo. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) t