Sunday, May 1, 2011

Amazon's lengthy cloud outage shows the danger of complexity

As major vendors continue to push for greater use of cloud computing, incidents such as this are sure to raise many concerns. This is not the first time Amazon has suffered a substantial outage—an uncorrected transmission error caused several hours of downtime in 2008, for example—but it was particularly severe, with prolonged unavailability and a small amout of data loss. The disruption to services that depended on the stricken Availability Zone was substantial.

Source: Ars Technica

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