In the wake of Amazon Web Service’s EBS (elastic block storage) subsystem outage, which took down or severely hampered sites like Reddit and Foursquare, there’s been plenty of noise about the perils of the “cloud.” ReadWriteWeb’s Klint Finley places the blame squarely with Amazon, citing not just the way the company handles data but also the company’s evasiveness in answering customer questions about the outage—what could be a costly “failure to communicate.” READ MORE
