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The 21 April an interruption of cloud computing Amazon Web Services fell on some Internet websites famous derailed and rising stars of the Web 2.0 as Quora and Reddit because they have based their Web services-lard the infringement of Amazon's cloud computing.

The interruption affected the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service at the Amazon site in Northern Virginia, that manages the operations of AWS for the U.S. East Coast. The problems began at 01:41 PT, second Amazon AWS status dashboard , with the delays and errors when connecting to servers on a network.

A long list of clients relies on Amazon EC2, providing their services on a pay-for-use model that allows customers to scale up or down depending on the computing needs.

After 4 day Amazon has not yet completed the recovery of all volumes and applications affected by the downtime and obviously does not release any technical information on what happened.

Only once the team EC2 has issued a paper with technical explanations of how much downtime you can see if it corresponds to what actually occurred in the Amazon data centers in Virginia.

I C # Developer, .NET, Java, Php, Python and Windows on WordPress / Linux Consultant Never rely to a cloud service all my work and above all my personal information especially if non-Italian therefore outside of our national laws. All that happened to Amazon shows that unfortunately what I think is true and I have been saying since taken the fashion of Cloud Computing.

So moral of the story never trust consultants or markettari you sell the latest fashion information for no reason but only for fashion and who is unable to justify the purchase of that service to the real needs of the customer.

Source: news.cnet.com

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