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Amazon issues apology and detailed technical explanation for EC2 cloud failure—more food for thought for the EDA cloud

Amazon issues apology and explanation for EC2 cloud failure—more food for thought for the EDA cloud In a long letter, Amazon has issued a complex explanation of the events behind the disastrous, multi-day failure of one zone it its EC2 … Continue reading

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Amazon’s cloud service crash permanently lost data. Think this has implications for EDA?

Today, MSNBC’s Technolog carries an article by Henry Blodget that discusses another aftermath of the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) services failure: lost data. The article quotes a letter from Amazon stating: “A few days ago we sent you an … Continue reading

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What does Amazon’s multiday cloud outage mean for EDA cloud services?

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is perhaps the most famous cloud utility on the planet and it has suffered a multi-day outage that is just finally clearing on Sunday, April 24 (Easter Sunday, by coincidence, see the Amazon AWS dashboard). There … Continue reading

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