Cloud Computing: AWS Outage Doesn’t Change Anything
September 21, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Justin Warren.
If the latest AWS outage changes anything in your approach to cloud adoption, then you’re doing it wrong. This is not the first AWS outage (I first wrote about one in 2011, back when I had hair), nor will it be the last. Nor will it be only AWS that suffers another outage at some point in the future.
We’ve already seen outages from Office365, Azure, Softlayer, and Gmail. Outages are a thing that happens, whether your computing is happening in your office, in co-location, or in ‘the cloud’, which is just a shorthand term for “someone else’s computer”. To think that putting applications ‘in the cloud’ magically makes everything better is naive at best…
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