Cloud providers need to study and model the potential cases of failure, Microsoft’s Tim Rains says. CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince: “It looks really, really bad when we go offline” Cloud providers advise customers to have backups of their cloud infrastructure, CSA’s John Howie says. In April 2011, Amazon had an outage in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that made any company that used the Amazon’s Eastern US N.Virginia region, without redundancy, more difficult to access.”]
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