A look at outages for cloud computing services over the past two years shows that most are minimal, a subset of the entire network. Very few cloud outages have caused massive data losses.

But after reviewing most of these outages, it’s clear that cloud service providers are still adjusting to how they do upgrades or estimate loads to the network when doing maintenance. We saw these issues arise more than once.

The results stem from research conducted by Mark Williams, a cloud computing consultant based out of the United Kingdom who is writing a book about cloud computing. Overall duration of the outages are based upon Williams research. He is actively looking for more instances of outages and is asking people to report examples of problems …

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