When a large portion of the Internet went offline earlier last week, no one could have guessed that the reason for it would be a simple typo. Yet, that’s exactly what happened, as Amazon gave an explanation to the incident. A number of big websites (and an even greater number of smaller ones) went offline for five hours -- Trello, Lonely Planet, Medium, IFTTT, Quora, and pretty much every site built on Wix. All the sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services, and that’s where the things have gone haywire. Apparently, its employees in Northern Virginia were investigating a problem with slower… [Continue Reading]
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