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The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application

The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application

By Ofir Nachmani on June 4, 2013

A while back, I was starting up an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud when it entered an endless restart loop. All the application deployment efforts we’d made (installation and service configuration) over two weeks just went down the drain. So we called support. The support rep redirected us to his team leader who simply […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Strategy | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, backup, business continuity, cloud computing, cloud outage, disaster recovery, enterprise 2.0, foursquare, High Availability, paypal, Service level agreement | 1 Response

Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2

Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2

By Ofir Nachmani on June 20, 2012

In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of the Amazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that the cloud will fail again and here it is… Chapter 2 Let’s first try to understand Amazon’s explanation for this outage. At approximately 8:44PM PDT, there was […]

Posted in Analysis, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon-web-service, aws, AWS ELB, cloud computing, cloud outage, disaster recovery, ebs, Elatic load blanacer, iaas, Power outage | 4 Responses

Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era

Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2011

One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that they can lock them in for the foreseeable future. Similarly, if anyone evangelizing cloud tells you […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged applications, business continuity, cloud computing, cloud outage, downtime, iaas, infrastructure, insights, paas, platform, saas, transparency | 4 Responses

Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 9, 2011

Last weekend saw Lightning taking out datacenters associated with Amazon Cloud and Microsoft BPOS. It affected one Availability Zone (AZ) in AWS Europe. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge has detailed information on the incident. Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing an explosion and fire that knocked out utility […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, cloud outage, design for failure, disaster recovery, DR, dublin, microsoft, outage, sla | 5 Responses

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