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So apparently the Amazon S3 outage happened because of one setting being wrong in a looooong string of commands issued to shut down just a few servers.

Am I the only Linux user who totally gets how that could happen to just about anyone regardless of how awesomely competent they might be?

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  • 20
    7y
    Just imagine being 'that guy'

    Years from now: "Yeah, I cost the world $150M and broke half the Internet with a flick of my wrists."
  • 5
    7y
    @mhudson Exactly. Then again, the plot of a tech thriller would have him wearing new concrete shoes exploring the bottom of the Hudson.
  • 3
    7y
    Do you think they would point at some purely technical reason? Nah, nobody talks shit about the glorious cloud. It was a human error of course. Nuttin wrong with da cloud.
  • 2
    7y
    But it's the CLOUD. It can't possibly be something as trivial as computers somewhere being managed by some...human being of flesh and bones. I refuse to believe it.
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