Amazon's partial cloud failure takes out several popular websites

"Right now, it looks like a complete network meltdown," tweeted George Reese, who is founder of cloud management company enStratus. He as well seemed to suggest that companies that found themselves down due to AWS should consider redundancy in later tweets.

Wednesday's issues as well highlight the drawbacks of taking it "to the cloud" vis a vis having one's own IT infrastructure. During a considerable amount of overhead is cut out by outsourcing, companies and services who depend on it for its operations are at the mercy of these cloud computing providers when problems arise.

The popular app store Cydia

iPhone jailbreakers as well found themselves without the popular app store Cydia: the service relies on AWS for its hosting and e-commerce platform.

Yes, nevertheless it is easier to have a failover site for a site in other words hosted locally than one in the cloud.I have many customers with all their innovation internal and they have a failover site. After all of a disaster, they can be up and running in the secondary site in about an hour. Now, the cloud could be an option as a secondary site, yet I personally however don't trust it enough.

Android handsets may be selling hand over fist, however when counting all media devices -- just as iPad, iPhone and iPod touch -- Apple's platform reach is 59 percent greater, according to ComScore.