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Latest · No. 01 · Fun fact ·
During a 2017 S3 disruption, AWS’s dashboard could not update for two hours
On February 28, 2017, an authorized Amazon S3 team member entered an input incorrectly while investigating a slowdown in S3’s billing system in Northern Virginia. A larger set of servers was removed than intended, affecting core S3 subsystems. S3 began serving some requests again at 12:26 PM PST and was operating normally by 1:54 PM PST, after the 9:37 AM PST event began.
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