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Amazon’s Cloud #fail is a wakeup call

Apr 22, 2011
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Amazon has been the poster child for everything that is good, right and holy about the cloud.

After today, Amazon will also be demonized for everything that is wrong with their own cloud. Amazon today suffered a major outage crippling hundreds (maybe thousands?) or sites (including a few of my favs like reddit).

For years, Amazon has been suggesting that their elastic cloud (leveraging Linux throughout as the underlying OS) had the ability to scale to meet demand. The general idea was supposed to be massive scalability without any single point of failure.

Apparently they weren’t entirely accurate.

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