Amazon's Cloud Crash Disaster Permanently Destroyed Many Customers' Data

Business Insider ^ | 04/28/2011 | Henry Blodget

[JBR34]

As predicted in the Movie “Terminator” SKYNET took control of the computers.

[dfwgator]

The “cloud” has its place, but I would never ever rely on it for mission-critical services.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I guess Amazon and Sony can commiserate with each other about down systems. Cloud computing sounds good, but I suspect the marketing department came up with it. I can’t believe an IT person would’ve come up with it.

[handmade]

I am not that convinced I want to be so dependent on any thing or any one else- course what do I know.

[proxy_user]

They probably had architectural software bugs. Replicating data across data centers is a poor strategy if data corruption is also replicated.

[TSgt]

Cloud computing sounds good, but I suspect the marketing department came up with it. I can’t believe an IT person would’ve come up with it.

Cloud computing is just another repackaged way to say: Application Service Provider, Outsourced Infrastructure, Capacity on Demand, etc...

There is nothing inherently intelligent about the cloud. It's just outsourcing version 11.0

[dfwgator]

Cloud computing is just another repackaged way to say: Application Service Provider, Outsourced Infrastructure, Capacity on Demand, etc...

The return of "Dumb Terminals."

[Biggirl]

Could this spell the end of this experientment called “cloud computering”.

[dfwgator]

As I said, there’s a place for it. But I think more people are coming around to the fact that it’s no place to put your mission-critical data.

[kevkrom]

I don’t know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but someone needs to have “I failed Distributed Systems 101” branded on their forehead for this one.

[commish]

Any Company that did not have their data backed up or mirrored in some way gets no sympathy from me. Never put all your eggs in one basket, and never trust another to protect your data.

[mewykwistmas]

Nah, just smack some common sense into people. How could you trust your entire company to another?

Always have daily backups to a different hard drive AND possibly to your PC, over FTP. Most sites are small enough for that

[LearnsFromMistakes]

ping

[ShadowAce]

[Still Thinking]

Cloud computing sounds good

It does? Sounds like a disaster to me. All drawbacks, both risks and inevitable, for no conceivable advantage (to me).

[B4Ranch]

Exactly. A catastrophic event then becomes another expected occurrence that was planned for.

[Jeff Winston]

THIS is what I have against “cloud computing.”

[TheOldLady]

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