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More Uptime Problems For Amazon Cloud

Posted by Soulskill on from the stormy-weather dept.

1sockchuck writes "An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night during an electrical storm, causing downtime for numerous customers — including Netflix, which uses an architecture designed to route around problems at a single availability zone. The same data center suffered a power outage two weeks ago and had connectivity problems earlier on Friday."

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  1. Cloud takes down cloud by AlienIntelligence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nuf said

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  2. Re:What, you thought "cloud" meant "no outage"? by dkf · · Score: 4, Funny

    And 8-track tapes while we're at it.

    We need those tape machines. Stick them in front of the real machines and get something hacked from a Raspberry Pi to spin them back and forth in an interesting pattern, with some extra blinkenlights for good measure, and we'll be able to once again prove to all the management types that we're doing serious computing so they can leave us alone and go back to their golf handicap.

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