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Tag: Amazon

  • Amazon EC2 4-day downtime debacle: Keeping your users in the dark is naughty

    A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the third-party collaboration/SVN tool we use was on the affected East USA zone where the issue…

  • Astroturfing & Disclosure: Where Do You Draw the Line?

    As more businesses start peppering their marketing plans with social media projects, activities that previously were reserved for the geeky early adopters are now coming under scrutiny when used for commercial endeavours. With all this new media growth, there’s no…