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Zenoss: Amazon Outages Equals “Down Goes the Internet”? Are you Kidding Me?

Hmmm. Weren’t Cloud services supposed to function like a RAID? “Never go down”? Or was that a mistaken assumption on my part?

08/12/11 • 11:17 AM • HardwareInternetMobileSoftware • (3) Comments

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‘Oh, did you mean the demo?’

Posted by Hal on 08/12/11 at 12:35 PM

As a software person, the problem with cloud services is that you can never pin downtime on the hardware anymore.

Posted by eric on 08/12/11 at 01:14 PM

... and many hosts have in their fine print, if the DNS is reaching their facility, that’s considered ‘100% uptime.’

Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 08/12/11 at 02:05 PM

 

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