eWEEK Readers Not Fazed By Amazon Cloud Outage

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1. When Amazon had a cloud outage, it passed you all by. Next: let’s talk about physical servers A well-publicised outage at the market-leading Amazon EC2 service appears to have had little or no effect on eWEEK readers’ plans for cloud adoption. When a data centre running Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had a partial failure, several social startups including HootSuite, Foursquare and Reddit were affected, some of them for days. Commentators said the incident at the provider, which is the market leader in cloud services, would taint cloud for some time – as trust has been singled out as a major problem for cloud services. (Read Full Article)

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