Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave
of negativity and criticism in the blogosphere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world’s largest hosting companies, experienced a outage that resulted in a similar reaction. When the backbone collapses, so do our favorite services. This makes
us mad. It makes us say things like: well, maybe we shouldn’t be using the cloud. Or things
like: why can’t we get 99% uptime? Or: isn’t this what an SLA is for?
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