Amazon: Networking Error Caused Cloud Outage

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/29/amazon-networking-error-caused-cloud-outage/

Last week’s lengthy outage for the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform was caused by a network configuration error as Amazon was attempting to upgrade capacity on its network. That error triggered a sequence of events that culminated in a “re-mirroring storm” in which automated replication of storage volumes maxed out the capacity of Amazon’s servers in a portion of their platform.
Amazon provided a detailed incident report this morning in which it discussed the outage, apologized to customers and outlined plans to make its platform more resilient in the future. The company also issued a 10-day credit to customers using the US East Region at the time of the outage.

Yahoo Mail Takes Big Hit In Cloud Outage

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229402462/yahoo-mail-takes-big-hit-in-cloud-outage.htm

Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO) Mail, the search company's cloud-based e-mail service, went down for several hours Thursday, making Yahoo the latest in a long line of Web-based e-mail players to suffer outages this year.

Yahoo on Thursday evening could not say how many users were impacted when its popular e-mail service was down for several hours. Yahoo acknowledged the outage on its Twitter feed.

"Yahoo Mail is currently inaccessible to some users. We are working to correct the issue and restore all functionality immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to our users who might be affected," Yahoo said on Twitter.

Google Videos shutting down later this month

http://www.techspot.com/news/43345-google-videos-shutting-down-later-this-month.html

Google Videos, Google's answer to YouTube before it gave up and bought the video sharing service, is being shut down. The search giant has sent out an email warning to users who previously uploaded one or more videos to the service.

 As of April 29, 2011, Google Videos will no longer let users watch any more videos. Users can, however, download their videos until May 13, 2011, and Google is encouraging them to re-upload their videos to YouTube.

Iron Mountain to shutter cloud storage service

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215679/Report_Iron_Mountain_to_shutter_cloud_storage_service

Computerworld - After only two years, Iron Mountain is planning to close its public cloud storage services, having already stopped accepting new customers as of April 1, according to market research firm Gartner.

The company will close its Virtual File Store services, which is targeted at archival of inactive file data, and its Archive Service Platform, which allows software vendors to integrate the Iron Mountain API to leverage the company's cloud