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In an earlier posting, Amazon Cloud, I mentioned I’m using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to backup some stuff.

I was a bit taken back when I read the Cnet News.com posting Amazon storage ‘cloud’ service goes dark, ruffles Web 2.0 feathers.

Amazon.com Web Service’s hosted storage service went down Friday morning, frustrating many Web site customers and refreshing concerns with the ballyhooed approach of cloud computing.

An online forum spiked with customer complaints Friday morning as some people found that content stored on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) was unavailable or performed slowly.

This isn’t the first time Amazon has run into problems keeping its computing services running without fail.

This going dark episode just reinforces my view that one can’t trust technology.

…John

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