Yet another service disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS) added to the company's hall of shame last month, marking the fourth Amazon cloud outage of 2012. But this time the failure couldn't be blamed on thunder and lightning or software bugs. In its postmortem of the event, Amazon acknowledged that human error was responsible for several hours of downtime for some of its customers, including high-profile AWS user Netflix.
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Site editor Jessica Scarpati and news writer Gina Narcisi return with their first week-in-review podcast for 2013 to discuss this story and more for the week of Jan. 21, 2013:
- Find out how human error can still be a serious threat in even a highly automated cloud environment like Amazon's, and learn what commercial automation tools may help prevent a major outage.
- It's everyone's favorite time of year: Market forecast season. Hear how some big trends,
including the rise of Platform as a Service, are going to drive
the cloud market in 2013.
This was first published in January 2013