{"id":2510,"date":"2012-07-06T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/06\/dating-site-dumps-amazon-ec2-100-uptime-required-sla\/"},"modified":"2012-07-06T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:41:02","slug":"dating-site-dumps-amazon-ec2-100-uptime-a-required-sla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dating-site-dumps-amazon-ec2-100-uptime-a-required-sla\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating site dumps Amazon EC2: \u201c100% uptime a required SLA\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The storm which accounted for Amazon&rsquo;s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailability.<\/p>\n<p>From 2300 EST on June 30 users of several high profile sites such as Pinterest, Netflix and Instagram were unable to access content, with AWS &ldquo;investigating connectivity issues&rdquo;. The issue was resolved by 0054 EST on June 31 but updates on power restoration appeared sporadically throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>It appears, however, that for one company this downtime was the final straw.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsYourPrice.com, an online dating service which allows users to arrange dates by naming their price, has gone its own way with Amazon following the provider&rsquo;s latest EC2 outage. Reports state that WhatsYourPrice.com has now upped sticks and moved to Las Vegas-based cloud provider FiberHub.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this was that, according to WhatsYourPrice, Amazon&#8217;s support team &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The storm which accounted for Amazon&rsquo;s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailability.<br \/>\nFrom 2300 EST on June 30 users of several high profile sites such as Pinterest, Netflix&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}