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Amazon reveals simple mistake behind massive AWS cloud outage - Puget Sound Business Journal
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Members of the Amazon Simple Storage Service team were debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected Tuesday morning. So the team attempted to take down a small number of servers for one of the subsystems that is used by the billing process.

“Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended,” Amazon said. “The servers that were inadvertently removed supported two other S3 subsystems.”

The mistake had a cascading effect, leading to widespread problems with Amazon’s massive network of servers that are a huge part of the internet infrastructure. After the servers were accidentally taken offline, they had to be restarted, which takes a while, according to The Verge, which reported on Amazon’s explanation.

Websites and apps affected by the outage included the Securities and Exchange Commission, Business Insider, Quora and Slack.

#Amazon #cloud #erreur_humaine

Jeff Bezos falls from No. 1 to No. 87 on list of best-performing CEOs, ranks below former Volkswagen CEO - Puget Sound Business Journal
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos fell from No. 1 to No. 87 on Harvard Business Review’s annual list of best-performing chief executives after the publication started to include a company’s social conscience as part of the ranking.

Bezos, who topped last year’s list, would have been No. 1 again if HBR stuck to its former ranking system – based solely on long-term financial factors including shareholder return. But a new metric dragged the Amazon chief down more than 80 spots.

Google scientist Jeff Dean on how #neural_networks are improving everything #Google does - Puget Sound Business Journal
▻http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2013/08/google-scientist-jeff-dean-on-how.html?page=all

#informatique #intelligence_artificielle #it_has_begun

Gates discloses media grant after report | Puget Sound Business Journal
►http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2011/03/gates-discloses-media-grant-after-report.html

When the Seattle Times published a lengthy profile of the Bill & Melinda #Gates Foundation’s #grants to professional #journalists on Feb. 19, the foundation apparently never disclosed that it had already approved its largest award ever to a #media organization.

#cdp