Researcher: Interdependencies Could Lead To Cloud 'Meltdowns' 93
alphadogg writes "As the use of cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream, serious operational 'meltdowns' could arise as end-users and vendors mix, match and bundle services for various means, a researcher argues in a new paper set for discussion next week at the USENIX HotCloud '12 conference in Boston. 'As diverse, independently developed cloud services share ever more fluidly and aggressively multiplexed hardware resource pools, unpredictable interactions between load-balancing and other reactive mechanisms could lead to dynamic instabilities or "meltdowns,"' Yale University researcher and assistant computer science professor Bryan Ford wrote in the paper. Ford compared this scenario to the intertwining, complex relationships and structures that helped contribute to the global financial crisis."
XKCD (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is why you cloud your cloud... (Score:5, Funny)
If you have a critical service, have it at more than one host... That way when AWS has a bad hair day, you are still up.
While we're at it, we should probably backup the internet too. You'd think someone would have done it by now, in case it crashes, but I can't find any record of anyone doing it.
Re:This is why you cloud your cloud... (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think someone would have done it by now, in case it crashes, but I can't find any record of anyone doing it.
Heh... the real think crashed long ago, you are using now the backup.