Cloud computing is the next big thing in tech sphere, and this place is so enchanting everyone wants to have a taste of it, both critics and supporters alike.  Cloud adoption trends are now widespread, with its industry boundaries becoming more vivid, sieving out the pretenders and contenders of cloud storage. But, the recent Amazon crash has brought several questions to surface and old issues rekindled. The future of cloud computing becomes the center of debates, again.

This mishap that shook Amazon elastic compute cloud or EC2 sends a clear message to key players and startups: any cloud players is predisposed to a similar crash. This claim was further supported by Forbes.com in one of their analysis that says, “In the near-term, Amazon may actually benefit as existing customers using cloud based solutions, such as cloud based servers, as these customers may look to add additional servers to mirror the existing ones to ensure that a similar crash will not down their systems. While this might provide some solace to Amazon, this occurrence could taint the perceived reliability of cloud based and offsite services.”

The aftermath of the misfortunes of Amazon web services includes financial losses posted by companies like Reddit and Quora, and users everywhere.  T3.com reported that the company is still recovering from the recent blackeye and that majority of the technical issues that struck its web services have already been addressed. Perhaps, full report on casualties and resolutions will be revealed together with the Q1 earning report of Amazon.com.

This recent setback experienced by Amazon is a good reminder on how cloud works. While other experts believe that the catastrophe exposed cloud’s weaknesses, it is in fact the other way around. The strength of  cloud computing is that developers have absolute power and control over application availability and not the IT staff nor data centers, for this instance, AWS.