There is no word on the cause of yet
another outage at Amazon Web Services.

I am not sure what is causing the reliability
issues with some of the largest cloud service providers like AWS, Salesforce.com,
Tumblr, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft Office 365 and others, but these outages are
undermining one of the key benefits touted for cloud computing; reliability and
security.

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http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240145330/amazon-web-services-faces-reliability-issues-after-christmas-eve-outage.htm?cid=nl_crn&elqTrack=true