Cloud Outages Rattle Nerves
October 31, 2012
Grazed from UCStrategies. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud computing is playing a more important role in enterprises. By 2013, cloud services will comprise 10 percent of IT spending, according to IDC. The adoption rate could slow, however, over reliability and security issues. When Amazon Web Services experienced an outage last week, taking several major web sites down with it, concerns were once again heightened over the reliability of cloud services.
Cloud outages of hosting companies are rare but nonetheless raise red flags for enterprises considering migrating business functions to a cloud computing environment. Following several high profile outages, service providers selling as-a-service technology need to provide added assurance of reliability and security…
The outage of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud services was a public relations disaster due to the popularity of the web sites it took out. Sites affected included the popular social networking sites Pinterest, Reddit, Foursquare, Turntable.fm, Heroku, and GitHub. Down for most of Monday, the cloud hosts problems were tracked to on-demand storage elements in the Northern Virginia data center. In the social networking world, a service failure can go viral. Unable to occupy themselves rating posts on Reddit or pinning images to Pinterest, news of the outage quickly spread through online forums. Other recent outages of Amazon have gone viral, including a major blackout in July – which took out Netflix and Instagram – blamed on failed backup generators and storms at the same North Virginia facility…
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