Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year?

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http://www.networkworld.com/article/2866950/cloud-computing/which-cloud-providers-had-the-best-uptime-last-year.html

By Brandon Butler
Network World
Jan 12, 2015

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform recorded impressive 
statistics for how reliable their public IaaS clouds were in 2014, with 
both providers approaching what some consider the Holy Grail of 
availability: five nines.

Flash back just to 2012 and pundits bemoaned the cloud being plagued with 
outages - from one that brought down Reddit and many other sites to the 
Christmas eve fiasco that impacted Netflix. It was a different story last 
year.

Website tracking firm CloudHarmony monitors how often more than four dozen 
cloud providers experience downtime. The company has a web server running 
in each of these vendors’ clouds and tracks when the service is 
unavailable, logging both the number and length of outages. The science is 
not perfect but it gives a good idea of how providers are doing. And 
overall, vendors are doing well and getting better.

Amazon and Google shone in particular. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud 
(EC2) recorded 2.41 hours of downtime across 20 outages in 2014, meaning 
it was up and running 99.9974% of the time. Given AWS’s scale - Gartner 
predicted last year that Amazon had a distributed system that’s five times 
larger than its competitors - those are impressive figures.

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