After investigating Amazon’s EC2 service, we decided to roll out PHASTGrid, our service-oriented middleware, on the cloud. And, of course, just as we went for a customer demo, Amazon had some infrastructure problems and nothing worked.

Nicholas Carr has more details on this:

• Why S3 failed

Bob Lozano of Appistry:

• Amazon S3 still Limping

Just good that we have additional resources for demoing – this time, we showed the same application running on a cluster of Playstation3…

Picture CC’ed by Reza Vaziri on flickr.