Lessons from Amazon Cloud Lightning Strike Outage

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Lessons from Amazon Cloud Lightning Strike Outage Amazon lost both its primary and backup power in a single lightning strike. What can Amazon, and customers of Amazon's cloud server and data storage services learn from the Dublin data center incident? [Editor's Note: Beginning August 24, Smart Business Solutions will be merged into the weekly BizFeed newsletter. You'll still receive the best-of-PCWorld information you've been getting, and it'll be part of a broader slice of PCWorld's great Business Center content. 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