readwriteweb.com— Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Why can't we get 99% uptime? Or: isn't this what an SLA is for?
Jul 21, 2008View in Crawl 4
Well stuff goes down, thats life. But what we call cloud computing today is a misrepresentation of simple client-server computing. We have a lot more work ahead of us before we are truly cloud computing rather than pie in the sky computing
This is a good thing.S3 is relatively young and surprisingly got a lot of clients rather quickly. They couldn't handle it, I presume they didn't forcast such a success. After a great catastrophic failure, things turn around. They know that after this they must earn the respect, and business, of their clients and not take it for granted -- that is they will likely be the most reliable provider. This is a very embarrassing situation for Amazon and they do not want to be in the spotlight, under these circumstances, again. They will put money, effort and manpower into ensuring this doesn't happen again. Watch for it.
no host is perfect. hell, i had a web host that installed a new update on their servers, and over half of the servers were down for the better part of 2 days. needless to say I am no longer with them
anthonywrJul 22, 2008
Well stuff goes down, thats life. But what we call cloud computing today is a misrepresentation of simple client-server computing. We have a lot more work ahead of us before we are truly cloud computing rather than pie in the sky computing
kalikkalikJul 22, 2008
I thought 7 8 9?
ephetersonJul 22, 2008
This is a good thing.S3 is relatively young and surprisingly got a lot of clients rather quickly. They couldn't handle it, I presume they didn't forcast such a success. After a great catastrophic failure, things turn around. They know that after this they must earn the respect, and business, of their clients and not take it for granted -- that is they will likely be the most reliable provider. This is a very embarrassing situation for Amazon and they do not want to be in the spotlight, under these circumstances, again. They will put money, effort and manpower into ensuring this doesn't happen again. Watch for it.
jemkaJul 22, 2008
7 did, and scared the piss out of 6.
macharborguyMay 20, 2009
no host is perfect. hell, i had a web host that installed a new update on their servers, and over half of the servers were down for the better part of 2 days. needless to say I am no longer with them