Amazon outage concerns are way overblown

Poor amazon has gotten a lot of bad press today. But as if that wasn't enough, the so-called "analysts" are attacking the entire cloud computing paradigm. While the hybrid cloud vendors are touting their offerings, the nay sayers are rejoicing.

 

I think these so-called experts need to go back to school and re-take the application design principles 101. Any recent computer science graduate knows the importance of building resiliency and redundancy in an app. A good design accounts for the the datastore being unavailable by including replicated datastores in the design. You would do the same even if the application was hosted in your datacenter, why treat amazon any different? Datacenters go down, whether they are internal or in the cloud. That's the reality. Build your applications accordingly.

 

For more information what really happened at Amazon read this excellent blogpost by Lydia Leong of Gartner

Dr. Chenxi Wang's comments on Amazon EC2 side-channel-attack

Researchers from MIT and UC San Diego recently demonstrated an attack against Amazon’s EC2 where an attack virtual machine can launch attacks against a victim virtual machine that is located on the same physical server.

Does this mean that there is a security vulnerability within EC2? Yes.

Should you be concerned? Not really.

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