It appears cloudy weather has affected the cloud services as Toodledo and Amazon’s ES2 servers suffered prolonged outages. The problem with Amazon’s EC2 servers was due to a lightning strike, due to which the service was out for longer than three hours. Likewise Toodledo, a free online to-do list service, had its datacenter hit by a storm, forcing the service to run on backup power. The site is still in trouble as its team tries to bring the service back online. While the idea of cloud computing sounds very pleasing as it guarantees availability of data anywhere, but if such an event occurs one can guess the drastic effect it may have on everyone utilizing the facility. Of course, companies/services will devise better and much efficient ways for backup and restore, but the outage would still effect everyone badly.
