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Amazon Web Services outages raise serious cloud questions

March 21, 2011 No Comments

The unreliability of Amazon Web Services is causing some cloud-dependent firms to reconsider their options and move their infrastructure onto other platforms.

Problems with the firm’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) service occurred at an Amazon datacentre in Virginia on 17 and 18 March. The issues were fixed relatively quickly, but still had a significant impact.