Windows Azure — Microsoft’s cloud platform — went dark for nearly 24 hours last weekend. Let’s keep the darkness in perspective: Azure is not a production network yet; it’s merely a test cloud environment that Microsoft is still optimizing. But 22 hours of darkness doesn’t inspire peace of mind in cloud systems. And I’m starting to think that Amazon.com — backed by loads of open source applications — is the cloud to beat.
The Windows Azure team posted a blog describing what went wrong, what was affected, and how Microsoft plans to prevent similar outages. Rival clouds — from Google and Amazon — have also suffered outages, notes InformationWeek.
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Uncategorized March 19th 2009