Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds

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Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds 189

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:03PM from the this-basket-of-eggs-is-highly-conductive dept.

1sockchuck writes "A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform and Microsoft's BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)."

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So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:5, Funny)

by artor3 ( 1344997 ) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:04PM (#37018874)

...nature wins?

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Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:4, Funny)

by Torinir ( 870836 ) writes: <torinir.gmail@com> on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:07PM (#37018886) Homepage Journal

Flawless Victory!

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Just imitiating Verizon. (Score:5, Funny)

by DWMorse ( 1816016 ) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:08PM (#37018894) Homepage

I see how it is. Verizon workers go on strike, MSFT and Amazon gotta call in for something strike-related that's bigger and flashier. Show-offs.

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The Cloud (Score:4, Funny)

by keithpreston ( 865880 ) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:12PM (#37018914)

Sounds about like
http://xkcd.com/908/ [xkcd.com]

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Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Trilkin ( 2042026 ) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:30PM (#37019000)

There is bad fanfiction depicting this event. Lots of it.

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Microsoft renamed its product (Score:5, Funny)

by countertrolling ( 1585477 ) writes: on Sunday August 07, 2011 @11:36PM (#37019018) Journal

Office 364

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Microsoft's BPOS (Score:4, Funny)

by markbark ( 174009 ) writes: on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:11AM (#37020428) Homepage

Business Productivity Online Suite?
I always thought it stood for "Big Piece of Sh..... never mind

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Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds

So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:4, Funny)

Just imitiating Verizon. (Score:5, Funny)

The Cloud (Score:4, Funny)

Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... (Score:3, Funny)

Microsoft renamed its product (Score:5, Funny)

Microsoft's BPOS (Score:4, Funny)

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