Common problems encountered at AWS

The previous sections have tried to make light of issues found in traditional settings, which might make moving to a Cloud infrastructure seem like a logical choice with no ramifications. But this is not true. While Cloud infrastructure aims to resolve many problems, it does bring up new issues to the user.

Underlying hardware failures

Some issues can be avoided while others may not. Some examples of issues that may not be avoided, other than user error, are underlying hardware issues that propagate themselves to the user. Hardware has a fail rate and can be guaranteed to fail at some point while the benefit of IaaS is that, even though the hardware is abstracted away, it is still a relevant topic to anyone using ...

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