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[[!meta date="2011-04-22 09:26:00"]]
[[!meta title="Info on why Amazon's AWS being down is so catastrophic"]]
[[!tag imported_PyBlosxom tech cloud]]
[AWS is down: Why the sky is falling | justinsb's
posterous](http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling)
This is a really interesting read. There are two sides to the cloud
computing lark as I see it, though I've not seen the distinction drawn
by anyone else myself: firstly there is the really dangerous idea that
users should store their data online with various providers who are
probably using the second part of cloud computing but who don't have to
be, which is really bad because it takes away control over something
that is increasingly important in our lives. But secondly there is the
idea of using elastic virtual instances over traditional always-on
servers that sit idle half the time; it's more efficient and
environmentally friendly.
The problem is that AWS doesn't really have much competition in the
latter atm which is why it going down brings the web with it which is
bad. I think that this also shows that traditional websites offering
information should definitely keep running their own webservers; such
sites at ten times more important than Web 2.0 and its friends and need
to remain up.
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