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Kees. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:41 > To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > sites > > Since I can't find any other references, the full translation of the > Dutch article is: > > Seattle- > a simple typing error was the cause of the global failure Tuesday on the > internet. That was announced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Thursday. An > employee tried to fix a problem with the cloud servers from Amazon and > had to turn off some. However, he mistakenly gave the command to disable > a range of servers. That triggered a chain reaction whereby the > computers had to be restarted. Websites like Buzzfeed, Expedia and > Medium were hours hardly reachable. Also Snapchat was suffering from the > failure. Eventually the problem lasted four hours. > > Kees. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > > Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:35 > > To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > > sites > > > > It was on Dutch newssites, with the text: "Amazon Web Services (AWS) > > announced this on Thursday". > > > > Kees. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > [email protected]] > > On > > > Behalf Of zMan > > > Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:31 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > > > sites > > > > > > Cite? (Not challenging you, interested!) > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The outage was caused by a typo. > > > > I remember there were times we made scripts and tested them on our > > > test > > > > environments, to avoid silly errors in the production > environment... > > > > > > > > Kees. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > > > [email protected]] On > > > > > Behalf Of Edward Finnell > > > > > Sent: 28 February, 2017 23:47 > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Subject: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > > > sites > > > > > > > > > > _Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites_ > > > > > (http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons- > cloud- > > > > > service-goes-down-sites-scramble > > > > > /98530914/) > > > > > > > > > > Wondered why traffic was a little off. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > -- > > > -- > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > IBM- > > > MAIN > > > > ******************************************************** > > > > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: > > > > http://www.klm.com. 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