Amazon's weekend cloud outage highlights EBS problems

The red headed stepchild of Bezos & Co's cloud just can't keep up

Problems in the Amazon cloud over the weekend crushed apps like Vine, websites like Airbnb, and numerous other services that depend on Bezos & Co's hulking cloud, and the problems were due to a familiar culprit – Elastic Block Store (EBS).…

via The Register - Cloud

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