I recently posted that I thought that right now, cloud computing is still waaaay toooo flakey for businesses to be able to rely on it 100%. The concept is superb, but it’s not quite there yet; in my opinion.
Today, as you will already know if you visited Twitter or stacks of blogs / websites, Amazon’s S3 cloud storage was down for around 8 hours – and it’s NOT the first time either. Om Malik has blogged it here on the superb GigaOm.com blog.
However, FAR MORE INTERESTING is the question asked today by Antonio Rodrigez on his “The Onda” blog, Antonio asks;
“…if AWS is using Amazon.com’s excess capacity, why has S3 been down for most of the day, rendering most of the profile images and other assets of Web 2.0 tapestry completely inaccessible while at the same time I can’t manage to find even a single 404 on Amazon.com? Wouldn’t they be using the same infrastructure for their store that they sell to the rest of us?”
Answers on a post card to…. well, leave a comment below!
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