Surely you will still remember how barely two days ago it seemed that more than half of the internet was down or did not respond, the same day that we had the opportunity to reveal that everything was due to a failure in one of Amazon's data centers, specifically the one that the company has located in the northern part of Virginia. In memory it remains as, due to a failure, services such as Slack, Business Insider, Quora ... were literally without access.
Finally we have not had to wait too long to know the conclusions they have reached in Amazon where, apparently, the whole problem was literally due to an employee entered a command wrong. This, oddly enough, caused all the services of the Amazon Web Services platform to be unused for hours.
An Amazon employee will bear the guilt of leaving without access to the media network.
As published by Amazon itself:
At 9:37 a.m. (PST) an authorized member of the S3 team attempted to execute a command that was to remove a small number of servers from one of the S3 subsystems that is used for billing systems. Unfortunately, one of the command elements was entered incorrectly and a large pack of servants were inadvertently removed.
The servers that were removed were part of other S3 subsystems. One of them, the indexing subsystem, is the one that handles the metadata and the location of the information for all S3 objects in the region. The second subsystem, the location subsystem, handles the location of the storage and depends on the indexing subsystem to function well and operate correctly.