In 2017, an Amazon employee on the S3 team executed a command intending to take a small number of servers offline but accidentally included a typo. The error took down more servers than intended, resulting in significant parts of the internet going down, including well-known services like Trello, Quora, and IFTTT. TC 250k
Cloudfare literally deleted a blank line and bought down significant percentage of Internet Gitlab once deleted about 6 hours of user data from repos
What’s the COE # associated with this issue? Would like to read about it
They made it private years ago to protect the poor S3 engineer. It wasn’t even really their fault, they should never have been able to fat finger that kind of thing in the first place. This incident is why the 2-Person Rule exists
Lmao. It happened in Route53 and not S3. I was there.
Did you also cause the sev?
Ha. That I didn’t
Good way to get PIPed
An actually interesting blind post. Thanks for sharing OP
If you want a wayback machine news service, that's not to be published to blind.
Pretty cool post imho
Yup.