- Lessons Learned, Survival-Stories etc. von Firmen mit Amazon-Infrastruktur Before 5 AM Eastern on April 21st, 2011, an outage started at EC2's northern Virginia datacenter that brought down hundreds of web 2.0 and social media websites including Foursquare, Springpad, Reddit, Quora, BigDoor and Hootsuite. Specifically, attempts to use Amazon's elastic-disk and database services hung, failed, or were slow. Service was restored to some parts of the datacenter (three of four "availability zones" in Amazon's terms) by late afternoon Eastern time that day
"Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications." Sample Business Cases: http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/#bus-case "We had the wrong idea about computers managing without human beings. Computers have realised that the real way to make money is to employ millions of people doing jobs computers cannot do, and for pennies." (Pierre Lazuly) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_mechanical_turk_to_rock_conference_blogging.php