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Re:Google outage – resolved by zymhan on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:58AM (#25418999)
Presumably there were more failures than a single engineer could've been responsible for here.
Re:Google outage – resolved by fjcp on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:15PM (#25420083)
Its absolutely possible, the worst AWS outage was caused by one engineer running the wrong command [0].

"This past Tuesday morning Pacific Time an Amazon Web Services engineer was debugging an issue with the billing system for the company’s popular cloud storage service S3 and accidentally mistyped a command. What followed was a several hours’ long cloud outage that wreaked havoc across the internet and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for AWS customers and others who rely on third-party services hosted by AWS."

[0] - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/02/aws-...