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EC2 Outage Shows How Much the Net Relies On Amazon

Posted by Soulskill on from the too-big-to-fail dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Much has been written about the recent EC2/EBS outage, but Keir Thomas at PC World has a different take: it's shown how much cutting-edge Internet infrastructure relies on Amazon, and we should be grateful. Quoting: 'Amazon is a personification of the spirit of the Internet, which is one of true democracy, access to the means of distribution, and rapid evolution.'" An article at O'Reilly comes to a similarly positive conclusion from a different angle.

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  1. Re:My cloud is fine by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course. The botnet authors have a vested interest in keeping your system up.