A panel of cloud computing advocates met the issue of the recent Amazon Web Services and Sony Playstation Network outages head on Wednesday at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, a UBM TechWeb event.
In the hallways, meeting rooms, and watering holes of the Mandalay Bay convention facilities, the Amazon outage in particular was a leading topic of discussion. In many cases, one attendee asked another whether it meant cloud computing had suffered a setback.
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