Lightning strike takes out Amazon's Ireland based EC2 cloud service

[pctech]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/lightning-strike-zaps-ec2-ireland/1382?tag=nl.e539

[Rik]

Clouds hit clouds?

[cavillas]

Ethereal comment from Rik.

[Rik]

I was just getting aerated, Alf.

[pctech]

Maybe people will now realise its just a load balanced server service and nothing special, after all 'cloud' services are supposed to be resilient aren't they?

Interesting to see that Amazon's retail servers, also hosted at this DC in Ireland according to Netcraft, weren't affected.

[Rik]

Follow the money, Mitch.

[pctech]

Of course they will use better kit that is also better protected for their own operations as Jeff Bezos didn't get where he is today by allowing his servers and warehousing machinery to be disabled by a surge or lightning strike.

[Technical Ben]

Some companies have fall backs or duplicate data/hardware. Some don't.
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