Beyond the Technical Glitch: Understanding the Cost of Misconfigurations
System outages have led to several notable disruptions over the past decade.
A striking example occurred in 2021 when Facebook experienced a worldwide outage impacting around 2.9 billion users. Similarly, in 2017, Amazon Web Services suffered a significant service disruption affecting a vast number of websites and online platforms. Both examples were due to misconfiguration errors; however, these are not the only ones that could be cited - even for these two repeat offenders.
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