Sandy and Amazon

Amazon gets all the press when something goes wrong, because they are the biggest cloud provider.

A couple of alternative cloud providers, PEER 1 and Internap actually tweeted hints that Sandy might cause an Amazon outage. Both providers are located way downtown in Manhattan.

You can guess what happened. Amazon, with East Coast data centers in the DC area (Virginia primarily), survived Sandy without a glitch. PEER 1 and Internap were completely flooded in the storm and totally went down.

Bottom line, Amazon is still the best.