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By: Spouting Shite » Blog Archive » Downtime is unacceptable

Spouting Shite » Blog Archive » Downtime is unacceptable — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:23:24 +0000

[...] read stories almost daily about Gmail outages, AWS glitches and even Rackspace downtime. You would be forgiven for believing that these are new issues for the [...]

By: Liddle Thoughts » Blog Archive » What Happens when the Cloud goes wrong ?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:21:07 +0000

[...] are different levels of ’going wrong’. We have often publicised outages from the likes of Amazon and Google, but given the publicised SLA’s of each some down time is expected. However things [...]

By: What is Cloud Computing, its Pros/Cons and making it work « How IT Works

What is Cloud Computing, its Pros/Cons and making it work « How IT Works — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:12:12 +0000

[...] Cloud Computing 101: Why Use The Cloud? Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Takes Many Startup Sites With It Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Cloud ComputingWeek 7 – E-ProcurementCloud [...]

By: 24/2 – 14 things I learnt from gmail Outage | Vinsol

24/2 – 14 things I learnt from gmail Outage | Vinsol — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:18:33 +0000

[...] Its the first anniversary of Amazon Web Services Outage. On 15 of February last year. February is not the good month for big [...]

By: Cloud Storage API Library

Cloud Storage API Library — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:30:46 +0000

I’m one of the Co-founders of CloudCamp. We’ve discussed this situation in our breakout sessions many times. One free open source project (that I helped create) might help startups in this situation is the CloudStorageAPI Library. Its a PHP library that allows your website to upload files to both Amazon and Nirvanix. You can add support for other Clouds too. It’s up and running on this website: http://www.woomeover.com, but there is still work to be done (such as better docs). Check it out: http://code.goo...cloudstorageapi – Dave Nielsen

By: .commEurope » Crolla Google, crolla la Rete

.commEurope » Crolla Google, crolla la Rete — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:45:15 +0000

[...] anno fa era successo qualcosa di simile ad Amazon e questo aveva evidenziato la criticità nell’uso di servizi di cloud computing in ambito [...]

By: What technology do you use every day? - Part 1 of 3 - Mobile Applications - Blog.WSG.net

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:26:19 +0000

[...] I don’t remember experiencing an issue with Twitter’s avatars or background during Amazon’s hosting outages last month. Twitterberry also has a known issue with Twit Pic integration. Known issue being a euphamisum [...]

By: What happens when the Cloud goes wrong ? | Cloudiquity

What happens when the Cloud goes wrong ? | Cloudiquity — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:06:30 +0000

[...] different levels of ’going wrong’. We have often publicised outages from the likes of Amazon and Google, but given the publicised SLA’s of each some down time is expected. However [...]

By: ippimail.com » Blog Archive » Tech world grinds to a halt as Gmail fails

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:14:33 +0000

[...] similar crisis occurred when Amazon Web Services went down almost exactly a year ago; thousands of web-based businesses rely on Amazon for their storage [...]

By: Tech world grinds to a halt as Gmail fails - Front Page News - NewsSpotz

Tech world grinds to a halt as Gmail fails - Front Page News - NewsSpotz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:08:21 +0000

[...] the more important it is that we have reliable backups in place. A similar crisis occurred when Amazon Web Services went down almost exactly a year ago; thousands of web-based businesses rely on Amazon for their storage [...]

By: In the Clouds… | Coolestan

In the Clouds… | Coolestan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:02:04 +0000

[...] Amazon S3 is not new, been around even before I started developing the last iteration of our site (RJ3 as I call it…). However, I never really saw a good fit to use it to serve content. Yes, it offloads some web traffic and you don’t have to worry about losing your data as much. But its latency is high and quite honestly our own hosting solution gets extremely much better traffic results to end users than S3 ever did. Not to mention hesitation that S3 servers will go down. [...]

By: El efecto Magnolia | Saasmania | Software como servicio - SaaS

El efecto Magnolia | Saasmania | Software como servicio - SaaS — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:00:01 +0000

[...] sí, porque el grande puede meter la pata, recordemos que Amazon la ha metido un par de veces en febrero del 2008 y en Julio del 2008 , y Salesforce la metío el 6 de Enero de este año, y tampoco creo que no [...]

By: Server Hosting Options - A Rough Guide : Sean Patrick Tario

Server Hosting Options - A Rough Guide : Sean Patrick Tario — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:09:11 +0000

[...] scale this to accommodate millions of users, and a BOAT LOAD of marketing dollars behind it. AWS went down just last week in fact, AGAIN, and admits they don’t have everything perfected yet. (Personally I don’t think [...]

By: Comparing Google App Engine, Amazon SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services | veryweblog focus on the internet ,new media.

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:25:12 +0000

[...] Service-Level Agreements: Not specified to date. Amazon S3 has a 99.9% service level guarantee, with payments of 10% of amount due for billing cycle in which the service level was below 99.9% and above 99% and 25% for a service level below 99.9%. AWS suffered a major-scale outage in February 2008. [...]

By: Alin

Alin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:26:58 +0000

Eric, Amazon and all … the cloud computing needs to be 100% percent reliable. This is the definition of Cloud Computing. Period. Isn’t that the promise of “don’t worry about scalability, performance, we’re handling it for you”? I think we’re getting there though with all the competition … we’ll see …

By: Using Amazon S3 to improve performance (using asp.net) | Wildbit

Using Amazon S3 to improve performance (using asp.net) | Wildbit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:01:32 +0000

[...] was. Also imagine that Amazon could go down. I understand, it’s almost impossible but it has happened already. In this way, every time when we place a link to the image or media, we should know which link to [...]

By: KnowledgeTree Blog » Blog Archive » Amazon Simple Storage Service Outage - Some Learnings

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:03:22 +0000

[...] Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) experienced an outage earlier today, which affected KnowledgeTreeLive and its users. The outage was quite widely reported. [...]

By: Amazon S3 service failure is the harshest I’ve seen yet | Torley Lives

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:59:35 +0000

[...] very reliable and the last time I’ve encountered such a problem (in memory) was on Feb. 15, earlier this year. But today’s outage is worse, going on for several hours now, and it’s also added to [...]

By: אלעד בבלוגלי » ארכיון הבלוג » Amazon S3 למטה והשמחה גדולה

אלעד בבלוגלי » ארכיון הבלוג » Amazon S3 למטה והשמחה גדולה — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:29:13 +0000

[...] אינו זמין ויחד איתו יורדים שרותים רבים אחרים שכן חברות רבות משתמשות בשרותי האחסון של [...]

By: Amazon Down For An Hour And Counting (Updated) | Tipstech.info

Amazon Down For An Hour And Counting (Updated) | Tipstech.info — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:19:15 +0000

[...] main PR number hasn’t yet been returned. At least their web services appear to be humming. An AWS outage in February took an untold number of startups with [...]

By: Amazon Down For An Hour And Counting

Amazon Down For An Hour And Counting — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:00:59 +0000

[...] main PR number hasn’t yet been returned. At least their web services appear to be humming. An AWS outage in February took an untold number of startups with it. CrunchBase Information Amazon Information provided [...]

By: Saved by the Backup «

Saved by the Backup « — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:20:16 +0000

[...] by the Backup Posted on Feb. 16, 2008 by flyrig Yesterday’s outage at Amazon affected some of our images, including the photos for the apartments. Luckily, we store [...]

By: Talkibie » Archive » For rent: Amazon’s cloud

Talkibie » Archive » For rent: Amazon’s cloud — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:50:04 +0000

[...] Web Services has experienced a few outages, most notably this February. As TechCrunch notes, other startups (including Twitter) who rely on S3 or EC2 experienced problems as a result. [...]

By: Amazon Web Services Gets Another Hiccup

Amazon Web Services Gets Another Hiccup — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:45:55 +0000

[...] Cloud (EC2) went down for about an hour for at least some customers in the U.S. This follows a major outage of its S3 storage service in February. Companies big and small use EC2 as a virtual data center to [...]

By: IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Seven Key Lessons to Keep in Mind When Communicating an IT Failure

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:09:49 +0000

[...] End-to-End IT Services Fail. Critical Applications Fail. DataCenters that we rely upon lose power due to a traffic accident. A system upgrade takes out an airport baggage handling system. A back-end infrastructure provider that many rely upon for outsourced infrastructure experiences a major outage…. [...]