How a tiny bug spiraled into a massive outage that took down the internet | CNN Business

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  • Amazon’s massive cloud service outage Monday started with a glitch.
  • The bug occurred when two automated systems were trying to update the same data simultaneously.
  • That snowballed into something significantly more serious, Amazon said.
  • The outage meant people couldn’t order food, communicate with hospital networks, access mobile banking, or connect with their security systems and smart home devices.
  • “We apologize for the impact this event caused our customers,” Amazon said in a statement on the AWS website.
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