AWS Loves CloudStatus – Proof!

A bit dated, but I finally got a break from conferences to watch all the great videos that were made about CloudStatus. Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo. My favorite is Virtualization.com’s for a few reasons: Trav still had the mohawk in that video. Yes, people [...]

[ More ] August 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, Events, IT Industry |

Amazon EC2, S3, SQS Outage

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com. We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many [...]

[ More ] July 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in CloudStatus |

Part the Clouds

As the world moves to cloud computing, service level insight gets foggier. Don’t let your performance get lost in the clouds. www.cloudstatus.com

[ More ] June 23rd, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, Events, IT Industry |

It’s Complicated

By now, the entire world has heard about Amazon’s much publicized outage last Friday. The fact that they had an outage this severe is surprising given their track record. What really shook me was how the situation was explained (or *not* explained). The short answer, as revealed to ZDNet: “These are complicated systems” Perhaps they’re [...]

[ More ] June 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ, Javiers Blog |