Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's BPOS are felled by lightning

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Important that we learn lessons from these events, says Rackspace manager

Both Amazon's EC2 cloud service and Microsoft's BPOS online desktop application suite in Ireland went down yesterday. The outages were the result of lightning during storms. According to a servi...

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