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Netflix outage: Amazon's failure shows risks in the cloud
A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com Inc that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacentre operations to the cloud. #HowThisWorks #Amazon Web Services #Netflix outage #Cloud services
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Netflix's Christmas outage due to failure at Amazon's web services
An outage at one of Amazon's web service centres hit users of Netflix Inc's streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday. #TechBuzz #Netflix #Amazon Web Services #Netflix outage
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Anonymous again? Amazon outage hits Reddit, Pinterest
A service outage for Amazon's Web Service (AWS) affected websites like Reddit, Flipboard, FastCompany, Heroku, Airbnb, Imgur, Pinterest and others late last night . #TechBuzz #Reddit #Pinterest #Flipboard #Amazon Web Services #Fousquare
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PC MagazineAmazon Web Services Receives FedRAMP Authorization
Amazon Web Services this week received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, allowing the company to lower the cost of its cloud services for U.S. government agencies. The mandatory program standardizes security asses #United States Department of Health and Human Services
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SlashgearAmazon Web Services gets green light for government use
Back in March, we heard rumors that Amazon was working on building a private cloud service for government agencies (specifically the CIA in that case), and it turns out that’s now getting the green light — sort of. Amazon and the US government signed a t #Central Intelligence Agency #United States Department of Health and Human Services #Netflix
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National PostAmazon brings Cloud Drive online storage service to Canada
Hoping to compete with the likes of Dropbox, Google Inc. and Box, Amazon.com Inc. announced on Tuesday its cloud storage service is now available Canada. Amazon Cloud Drive offers users 5 GB of free storage for digital files such as photos, videos and ot #Canada #Amazon.com #Google Inc.