The failure behind the Amazon outage isn't just Amazon's

When Amazon.com's outage last week -- specifically, the failure of its EBS (elastic block storage) subsystem -- left popular websites and services such as Reddit, Foursquare, and Hootsuite crippled or outright disabled, the blogosphere blew up with noise around the risks of using the cloud. Although a few defenders spoke up, most of these instant experts panned the cloud and Amazon.com.Fashion disasters jen aniston Michelle Obama 83rd Annual Academy Awards