Apr 22 2011
Dark Clouds Over Amazon
OK – I admit that the title of this blog post is a bit dramatic! I am of course referring to the fact that Amazon‘s cloud infrastructure was out for several hours yesterday. See Amazon fault takes down websites or Amazon cloud sinks, smothers Web 2.0 darlings.
It is a pity really, because this is the sort of incident that moving into the cloud is supposed to prevent! As somebody I know who deals with Amazon said:
Amazon keep promising us 100% reliability, because “Telcos’ five 9s are so yesterday”!
Yes – this has effected his companies cloud strategy!