Clouds got in my way--lack of them!

[vk6zgo]

On Saturday,my other favourite Forum,QRZ.com,went walkies in the biggest way for 12 hours,due to a power failure causing the loss of the "Amazon Cloud"!
I had a vague idea of how "Clouds" worked,but was not aware that whole websites lived & had their existence inside them.
I also, in my naivety,thought Amazon sold books & stuff,not owning a"Cloud"!
Did anyone else lose access to a favourite website during this event?

[T4P]

I did not know of any sites that went walkies
but i'm pretty sure i heard of Amazon clouds last year

[SeanB]

You do know that cloud computing is just the same as server on internet.

[Bored@Work]

You do know that cloud computing is just the same as server on internet.

With a few twists.

And Amazon is indeed a big (some say the biggest) player in the field. The reworked their platform some time ago, splitting it in a generic part, providing cloud services, and special parts, running their book and whatnot shops on top of their own cloud services.

Google is really pissed about this, because they did a similar thing, but their services are not very popular. Amazon got it largely right for all kinds of e-commerce, because they have a big, demanding e-commerce user on top of their cloud services, themself.