One of the cool tidbits to come out of Bloomberg’s look at the upcoming iCloud service is what Apple can do by relying on a scan and mirror strategy in place of a direct upload to a music locker.
“If the sound quality of a particular song on a user’s hard drive isn’t good enough, Apple will be able to replace it with a higher-quality version.” Read More
Remember the cloud outage last week that interrupted Thrillist emails, knocked Aviary’s site down for more than a day and lost some of Chartbeat’s data? Amazon posted a lengthy post-mortem explaining what happened (passive voice: “a network change was performed,” “the traffic shift was executed incorrectly”) and offering customers in the region Read More
The outage of Amazon web services last week highlighted just how many companies in the New York startup ecosystem rely on its EC2 cloud.
Now it appears that there was not just a temporary outage, but that some customer data was permanently lost, meaning another headache for local entrepreneurs to explain to their users. Read More
Poor Aviary.com is still down, forced to replace its site with a screenshot of the homepage and an apology: “Our hosting company (amazon EC2) is experiencing a large-scale outage that is affecting many sites across the internet, including Reddit, FourSquare and us. They are working to resolve the problem and we’ll let you know as soon as we’re back. Meanwhile, enjoy this preview of our new homepage!” Read More
New York start-ups love them some Amazon Web Services, the cloud hosting platform that remotely stores data and makes it easy to add new servers quickly in the event of an increase in usage. But the giant stumbled this morning with an outage at its Eastern data center which took down sites across the web including Reddit, Foursquare and Quora, and while many sites are back up, some continue to experience downtime; locally, web app maker Aviary has been down all day. Read More
One of the most interesting developments in the tech industry since the dot com days has been the emergence of cloud infrastructure like Amazon web services.
With AWS, young companies are able to scale faster and cheaper. One of the reasons the seed stage ecosystem is so flooded with cash right now is because a small investment is enough to build a viable app and test the market for consumer traction.
So it’s been a trip watching Twitter today as AWS experiences its worst outage on the East Coast in recent memory. It’s not just the little guys. Established companies like Foursquare, Aviary and Thrillist have all been affected. Read More
