Survey OF Effects Of Cloud Outage Shows How Much Of The Web Runs On Amazon

All of the news reports about the Amazon Web Services Outage Friday night mentioned the same few big name companies, Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram. A few tech blogs mentioned Heroku, the well-known Ruby and JavaScript-based cloud application platform. Clearly Amazon and all of the companies affected are working on damage control, which means, for the most part, a tweet or three but no public acknowledgement on their websites. Full Story »