While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and Texas as well. The Amazon.com cloud center in Virginia was rocked by an outage that led to a multi-day clean up, affecting the company’s services to clients in hosting data for website operations, storing business data and tracking e-mail.
Thousands of companies went dark as the problems persisted from Thursday and into the beginning of the weekend. Many businesses are now considering backup cloud services to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Austin companies such as mobile device check-in service GoWalla, cloud-based backup provider Spanning Cloud Apps and social-media provider Mass Relevance saw interruptions on Thursday but were able to overcome them the same day, while others such as local travel agency Century Travel lost a whole day of business from customers it couldn’t communicate with until Friday.
In a blog post from Dallas-based ShopSavvy, the mobile barcode scanning service said it didn’t face any loss in production, due to the fact that ShopSavvy has its own infrastructure host on the company’s back end, supplementing Amazon’s cloud service.
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