Data center and cloud hosting services, Amazon cloud infrastructure suffered a power outage last week, creating problems for their clients which lasted more than 24 hours.
The blackout was lasted several hours affecting tens of notable sites including Foursquare, Quran, Moby and Reddit. Many large EC2 users ended up losing valuable business data. Chartbeat reports losing 11 hours of historical data to its customers saying it’s “unrecoverable.”
Amazon said the problems were due to a power failure, but did not provide further details on the origin of the problem that caused the blackout...
...This puts a big question mark over the reliability of the cloud, and objects of the popular perception of infallibility cloud. A system, as redundant as it is, is not immune to failure, human error, software bugs, etc.
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