Thousands of sites, including Foursquare and Quora, was offline due to damage to the Data Center cloud-based computing (cloud computing) belonging to the Amazon in the territory of Virginia."Host our data center which usually works great, Amazon EC2, had a little problem this morning, affecting us and some other services that use the data center,"the statement Foursquare location sharing service as reported by the Telegraph, Sunday (24 / 4) .
Yes, in addition to selling books and DVDs online, Amazon.com also offers web hosting and storage services for companies who do not want to spend a lot of money to build their own data centers.
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), who becomes host to several large sites such as Foursquare, Quora and news portal Reddit, began last Thursday damaged. Fortunately, now the service that was to be re-accessed.
Although the cause of thousands of sites offline, the Amazon site itself was not experiencing any impact.
Quora Amazon itself does not want to blame the excess. "We hope to soon resume operations. Sorry, it's also frustrating for us. We could blame a particular party, but we will not be here without EC2," a statement of social networking is established 2009.
Cloud computing service today is more widely used by a number of startup, but this service model is expected to become a bigger business in the future. (krJogya)
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