Friday’s storms raise questions about safety of cloud computing

Storm-related outages at an Amazon data center in Ashburn prompted some congressional officials on Monday to question whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector cloud computing servers. The outages affected companies such as Netflix and Pinterest, not the government. But several federal agencies have moved e-mail and other services to cloud servers, which are housed at remote data centers and typically managed by technology companies such as Amazon or Google. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Recommend Tweet Personal Post Gallery D.C. thunderstorms knock out power across region: Homes and businesses across Maryland and Virginia...