Amazon has issued a statement that adds a little more clarity to its Web services outage on Friday. The company also said it has "identified a set of short-term actions as well as longer term improvements."
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Larry Dignan: Alibaba, Yahoo's stronghold in China, is reportedly wary of the Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for the Internet portal. Alibaba is so wary of Microsoft that it is looking for more management independence from Yahoo.
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GrandCentral is an awesome service that Google acquired last year. It lets you get a brand new phone number that simply links all your other phone numbers together. Not only that, it gives you a load of features that let you do anything from record incoming calls to switch between your mobile and home phone mid-call. Even though the service is hugely popular, it’s not without flaws.
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Michael Krigsman: For users and companies who signed up hoping for mission critical service, this is bad news indeed. This morning's outage lasted three hours.
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Phil Wainewright: Sooner or later, it was inevitable that a server outage would expose Amazon's lack of preparedness for failure. It's beyond me why providers always have to wait until it happens instead of acting beforehand.
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