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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. Clouds: Up in the air and foggy: by Hartree · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article seems to be an apology for Amazon.

    Basicly it says "We went down, and took down lots of important stuff. That shows just how important we are and that lots of people use us. Thus, our cloud is a good thing."

    The logic of that doesn't quite work.

    I agree that it's a useful tool, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense to put in the cloud.

  2. Re:It also shows... by nothings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget the one-click patent. True democracy/spirit of the Internet my ass.