Will Amazon EC2 Outage Negatively Affect Attitudes Toward Cloud? Nah!

eWeek.com

eWeek.com

In the aftermath of the recent Amazon EC2 outage, I spoke with Chris Preimesberger at eWeek about what this means to the perceptions of cloud computing, and whether or not it really mattered:

“The first thing to understand [about this event] is that this changes nothing,” Andi Mann, longtime storage industry analyst who’s currently serving as chief cloud strategy guru at CA Technologies, told eWEEK.

“Cloud will have downtime—it’s a fundamental issue. But you need to be ready for downtime, whether it’s your own infrastructure or cloud infrastructure. You need to understand what the risk is. It’s all just about risk management.”

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