Posts Tagged ‘AWS’

Customers frequently ask ServiceMesh what we think is the best way to build an IaaS cloud. "Well, you need more than just a hypervisor," we say. "That just gives you the basic virtualization layer. You also need a cloud layer that organizes those virtualized resources and exposes them to the outside world as a cloud,…

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a big outage. I mean BIG. Four days of problems, affecting untold number of sites, some of them major names on the Internet. One blog called it the “Amazonpocalypse.” In the cloud world, this was the equivalent of an H-bomb going off in your back yard. Predictably, over…