Comments on: What happens when clouds (inevitably) burst?

While system failure is inevitable, cloud computer providers must keep their users in the information loop.

[nscnet]

This is a brand new system, most people don't even know Windows Azure exists... either way, as I said, its brand new, don't expect perfection, yet.

[calmor15014]

Brand new or not, whenever it goes down, people are losing money, and Microsoft (and Amazon, Google, etc) owe it to their customers to provide at least some insight into what's happening.

It's good that this kind of issue occurred now - gives MS time to work out the bugs while the system is relatively small, but how long will it be out when the next bug or even external failure occurs 3 years from now?

[Len Bullard]

I'd be a lot more concerned about the rising costs of coarsened services as the deal can change at each contracting period and will. What you give up to the cloud is leverage and no one does that except the government.