Although cloud services in general and Amazon Web Services in particular are growing at unprecedented rates, periodic service failures continue to disrupt users’ operations and raise questions about the best way to mitigate the risks created by these outages. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ suggestions in SearchAWS about how your organization can reduce the chances of becoming victimized by Cloud service disruptions.

Well, it turns out the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage I referred to in my previous blog entry was more significant than originally reported.

The initial issues being suffered by AWS last Friday were compounded by the severe weather which hit the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states later that day. The impact of the outage has also been more widespread than just a small number of Cloud companies, as indicated by this New York Times article which discusses the broader effects on a diverse cross-section of companies and consumers.

The outage also came shortly after Gartner announced that it expects Cloud storage services to experience exponential growth over the next 3-4 years,

“The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third of their digital content in the cloud by 2016, [up from] just … Read More »