One major problem I’ve witnessed the past year is the growing dependency on cloud computing services–specifically AWS, a cheap and popular choice of many large social networks. When the service goes down, sites like Reddit and Formspring essentially have almost power to perform on both the frontend and the backend. As Amazon works to fix the problems, thousands of sites are inaccessible. How reliable are cloud computing services such as AWS? Is it healthy for a site to have complete dependency on these services? Cloud computing picked up popularity only recently, it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves in the upcoming decade.