AWS Failure??? People Caring is a Success

Techcruch posted a note today about the downtime of the Amazon web services. While the downtime certainly affects those startups that have built their entire application within Amazon's Suite of web services, many people do not realize that you can build your web site within Amazon's hosting facility.

However, the news is that people and businesses are greatly affected when Amazon Web Services have gone down. What started as an experiment now affects many business and shows that enterprise cloud computing is not just a hobby for savvy entrepreneurs.

If you are not familiar with Amazon Web Services, they offer four major "clouds."

1) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

2) Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.

3) Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

4) Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.

 Google has taken notice of the amount of people leveraging Amazon's infrastructure and most expect a major announcement tonight about "Big Table" or Google's database in the sky.

Certainly more tomorrow if that happens.