Room 77 to remain in the cloud after Amazon outage
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Travel companies should fine-tune their cloud strategies after an Amazon Web Services outage took down Room 77, Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix. Given the cost-savings and efficiencies of cloud computing, travel companies won't be abandoning such services -- nor should they -- any time soon.
Room 77, which saw its website and iPhone app go down for more than 20 hours last weekend when lightning killed the power to an Amazon Web Services facility in Virginia, will clearly stick with cloud computing.
Kevin Fliess, Room 77 general manager, says the hotel-shopping site has used Amazon Web Services for more than two years and he called the outage "a real anomaly."
"To stop using the cloud would be like giving up air travel because of a single crash," Fliess says.
in a blog post
