Health Care in the Cloud: A ‘Case Study of What Not To Do’

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD Amazon Web Services (AWS), “the cloud” for many, experienced a serious interruption in service beginning on April 21st. The problem lingered for at least 6 days. Many websites that relied on Amazon services went down or saw their performance degraded during the event. The AWS failure disproportionately affected startups like Foursquare, Quora [...]...