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Amazon’s Clouded (Computing) Vision — and why you should care

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Nora Brown

On Thursday, server problems at Amazon’s EC2 data hosting center left thousands of buzzworthy websites (HootSuite, Quora, and Foursquare, to name the buzziest) crippled or out of commission completely. Said Computerworld:

For a company that’s known as the dominant player in the cloud market, Amazon’s troubles on Thursday means a black eye for the company and for the cloud in general.

The incident is unlikely to cause… Continue reading

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