The cloud is not smart enough to be reliable, says uptime specialist
QUESTIONS need to be asked over whether the cloud is really up to the job of hosting critical services, according to resilience firm Neverfail.
Neverfail CTO Paddy Falls told The INQUIRER that following Amazon's recent outage firms need to ask "can you trust the cloud to give you sufficient resilience" in services? Amazon's most recent outage occurred last week, with initial reports suggesting that one of the firm's datacentres had succumbed to a lightning strike, only for that story to be changed to blame a dodgy electrical transformer.
Excuses aside, the downtime of Amazon's widely used cloud services left some web sites offline, something that many cloud users believe should not be possible thanks to the vast numbers of physical machines that make up a cloud. Falls suggests that companies shouldn't bank on the machines of a single provider to ensure resilience.
