What we can learn from Amazon's cloud failure

[portentint]

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/04/Amazon-server-failure-highlights-problem.html

[mtogo]

Wait, we're supposed to handle redundancy ourselves and plan for issues!?

I feel like i've seen this article before. Maybe because it's a low quality rehash of every submission on the HN frontpage?

[zaidf]

I really dislike driveby statements like "the cloud saves money". From my use case when I ran a high traffic site, it was several times more expensive than normal dedicated servers.

[jfornear]

http://yaycloud.ytmnd.com/