Websiteudvikler » Cloud Computing http://websiteudvikler.dk website development, CMS, e-commerce, data integration and web analytics Fri, 11 May 2012 19:53:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cloud Computing experience when things go wrong http://websiteudvikler.dk/post/cloud-computing-experience-when-things-go-wrong.html http://websiteudvikler.dk/post/cloud-computing-experience-when-things-go-wrong.html#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:28:03 +0000 Kevin Steffer http://websiteudvikler.dk/?p=616 Our company website www.co3.dk (it’s down as of this writing) is hosted on a EC2 instance (Virtual Machine) in the Amazon Cloud in Ireland and they have had a lightning strike that led to a power problem.

Now our website is down on day two – how can this be in modern days of Cloud Computing concepts?

I will never forget this event, because what the problem here is. Is that they have so much data, that it takes a very long time to recover all these instances (machines). In traditional hosted environment (typically smaller) I think a major benefit is, that the data takes less time to restore.

This outage of the Amazon service at the “eu-west-1b” region in Ireland is a  disaster for the future of Cloud Computing.

You can follow the status of the recovering process here http://status.aws.amazon.com/ and even get announcements as a RSS feed here http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/EC2EU.rss

 

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