User blog:Clawdenx/time for emergency internet

It's supposed to be the cheap and safe way for internet-based companies to outsource data.
 * Thousands of businesses and major websites hit by cloud outage
 * 75million gamers affected as PS Network drops out, and the problem won't be fixed for a 'day or two'

But Amazon's much-vaunted cloud network took a big hit yesterday when it crashed, taking a host of web 2.0 companies - including Reddit, Quora, and Hootsuite - down with it.

The rare phenomenon came on the same day as the massive PlayStation network went offline after an unexplained outage, which officials say could take another day or two to put right.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379474/Web-chaos-Amazon-cloud-failure-crashes-major-websites-Playstation-Network-goes-AGAIN.html#ixzz1KQ90ZGFX