On Tuesday, February 28, Amazon had almost broke the internet. While changing some of its systems, one of the workers made a typo. Unknowingly this typo made many of the apps, billing systems and websites run slow or unresponsive.

While Amazon does own many businesses and websites, it effects many of them when there is a problem with even trying to change a billing system.  Amazon is making multiple changes to make sure this never happens again.

According to Synergy Research Group, Amazon owns 40% of the cloud services, meaning it’s responsible for the operability of large portions of popular websites. So if Amazon’s system goes down, it takes a huge number of businesses, apps, and publishers with it. That’s why so many sites struggled with slow or reduced capacity during Tuesday’s outage. Some news organizations couldn’t publish stories, and file sharing was disabled on the enterprise chat app Slack.