Amazon mystery solved: A typo took down a big chunk of the Internet

The major outage that hit tens of thousands of websites using Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service on Tuesday ends up having been the result of a simple typo — just one incorrectly-entered command.

The major outage that hit tens of thousands of websites using Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service on Tuesday ends up having been the result of a simple typo — just one incorrectly-entered command.