Amazon’s Data Center Outage Highlights Cloud Computing Risks
Posted on“Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy.” Any good risk management tool is predicated around this mantra, and yet today, in a highly unusual incident, Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers’ went blank. Client sites from Foursquare to Reddit were rendered inaccessible Thursday, and there is no communication from AWS personnel as to why the system went down. I wonder how much […]