Power supply issues and software bugs only made a bad situation worse for
AWS, which is facing growing competition in the IaaS space.
Amazon Web Services’ lengthy outage over the weekend after powerful
storms through the Mid-Atlantic region knocked out power has put renewed focus
on the risks of cloud computing and how users can minimize those risks
going forward.
The storms also cut off power to one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) 10
data centers on the East Coast, a situation that was exacerbated by problems
with backup power at the Virginia facility as well as unexpected software
issues that arose during the recovery efforts… However, according to a July 2 analysis from Amazon,
the situation created by the power outage was made worse due to problems with
power supplies and software bugs….
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