Cloudburst or spring shower: Musings on Amazon’s outage
Some of you may know about Amazon’s recent troubles with an outage in its eastern region that brought down its cloud services for hundreds (thousands?) of cloud-based web sites, some of them for days. From The Wall Street Journal to the New York Times to minions of bloggers, everybody had a comment on the first major stumble in “cloudom.” Events like this feed the FUD factor (fear, uncertainty and doubt) that follows cloud. However, they can also help mature everyone’s understanding and provide needed perspective.
We at Discovery Health Partners live in the cloud. We run our business infrastructure on Google and other service providers, and our client applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We lived through this first major test of its durability and reliability. Our take: Amazon’s cloudburst was a mere spring shower, expected and needed to help cloud flourish. READ FULL PERSPECTIVE>>