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cloud computing
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The Day the Cloud Disappeared. Amazon’s Outage and the Risk of Public Clouds.
26 Apr 2011 by panmedia / No Comments
This post originally appeared here on Trusted-Cloud.com on April 22, 2011
Where were you yesterday when the cloud went down? By down, I make reference to Amazon.com’s Web servers and how they crashed and took a lot of the Internet down with them.
I was at a birthday lunch, so the outage only affected my ability to check in on Foursquare and post some food photos to one of my blogs. But for millions of other people, they couldn’t access their favorite sites, their private and corporate data, and they likely had a crisis on their hands trying to find ways to route visitors and data to the right locations.
Essentially, the outage yesterday proved the point that a mix of private and public cloud computing solutions is better than putting all your eggs….err data….in one basket. While Dipto Chakravarty and I agree that the public cloud is fantastic for handling burst data and overflow, in some cases it takes away the very control an IT department needs to operate.
The AP did a full story on the outage here, so I won’t go deeper into it except to say that this incident is likely going to have tech staffs working a bit of overtime today and into Easter weekend reinforcing their private cloud systems and establishing some data protection strategy. Cloud security applications could be affected as could the specific operations of any enterprise.
What are you doing this weekend now that Amazon had a hiccup? What would be doing if the hiccup was a full-blown sneeze and their systems went down for a week?
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