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I am SUPER interested in what problem could be big enough to cause this world-wide

I’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like

  if user == ‘jeff bezos ’
that needs to be updated to
  if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)
Pseudo code above. Could be the userids, usernames, internal aliases, levels, etc.

This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.

Could that realistically be the culprit? Sounds insane

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