The 10 Biggest Cloud Outages Of 2011 (So Far)

The Cloud Will Go Down

If we've learned anything about the cloud in the first half of 2011, it's that the cloud can and will go out. There will be outages. The cloud is not immune. It turns out, the cloud computing services and architectures are just as prone to downtime as their on-premise counterparts. And some of the biggest cloud players suffered big-time downtime so far this year.

Here we take a look at the 10 biggest cloud outages of 2011 … so far.