Amazon cloud outage staggers into Day 2

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: ComputerWorld

Amazon.com is well into the second day of trying to fix a cloud outage that has partially disabled or knocked out popular Web sites like Quora, Foursquare and Reddit.

The trouble started a little after 5 a.m. ET Thursday when the company's Service Health Dashboard reported connectivity issues that were affecting its Relational Database Service, which is used to manage a relational database in the cloud, across multiple zones in the eastern U.S.

Because of server problems at Amazon's data center, which handles the company's EC2 Web hosting services, Web sites, including popular Web 2.0 sites, were left staggering or disabled.

As of noon ET Friday, these sites have been affected for about 30 hour

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[Dappleganger]

1. Reddit is slowly rolling back online.

I am sure they are seriously reconsidering their business relationship with Amazon right now--this has happened numerous times although not to this extent.

[Recursion]

2. I want my damn ecard!

My girlfriend sent me an ecard Wednesday night and I still can't get it because of this. It's vexing.

[notesdev]

3. Well golly gee

maybe concentrating and centralizing systems to a single point of failure wasn't such a hot idea after all

[sudopod]

4. Quora, Foursquare and Reddit

And nothing of value was lost

[DCKit]

5. So, you've never been there either?

Hell, I don't even know what they are.

[stockholmer]

6. wait till the US decides to implement cloud computing for all who want internet 2 access

not just data loss, but the end of all data privacy

[Xithras]

7. I wouldn't worry about that.

The NSF has handed administration of I2 over to Educause, which has already decided that Internet2 will never be available for private or commercial uses. It is, and will always remain, limited to educational and government groups. I2 is a testbed for next-gen network applications and protocols. When something particularly promising is found, they intend to make that technology available to companies so that it can be incorporated into "our" Internet.

[snot]

8. In case not already noted, see "Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts" at

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/technology/23cloud.html .

It would have been appropriate also to note that the existing contracts apparently also offer no meaningful protection against being summarily kicked off their servers, as Wikileaks was.