Delicias de la nube...

Siguiendo a ExtJs, hoy aparece el lado oscuro del cloud computing: por algún tiempo (¿ tres horas?) múltiples sitios soportados por Amazon, salieron de servicio. En The Next Web:

The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely.
Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Moby and Hootsuite are among those affected by technical troubles on Amazon’s servers. The company’s status dashboard currently shows problems with the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service operations, based in North Virginia, with connectivity issues confirmed.

We can confirm connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances and increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. Increased error rates are affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We continue to work towards resolution

Quora pulls no punches on its error page, stating: “We’d point fingers, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without EC2.”