The embarrassing reason behind Amazon’s huge cloud computing outage this week

Amazon is back with an apology and an explanation for a high-profile malfunction that caused websites all across the Internet to grind to a halt for hours on Tuesday.

The online retail giant, which runs a popular cloud computing platform for sites such as Airbnb, Netflix, reddit and Quora, is blaming the outage on a simple — and perhaps somewhat amusing — employee mistake.

By Brian Fung

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