Sunday, July 01, 2012

Storms knock down Amazon Web Services

Severe thunderstorms on the East Coast this past weekend wreaked havoc on many companies including Amazon's Web Services which stores tons of data for companies worldwide.  The storms knocked down Web Services which in turn impacted its customers such as Netflix and Instagram.

Amazon is a behemoth in the storage space- these shutdowns bring into question the viability of cloud-based storage for businesses.  Amazon has suffered repeated failures in recent months.

 How should companies prepare for this?  How do you personally back up your information?

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