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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by Salgat on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:16PM (#13759668)
That depends if you're willing to pay for the cost of hosting all your content twice and the development overhead of managing that. Twice the persistences means twice the chance of an issue occurring.
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by nashadelic on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:56PM (#13760572)
That's where tech like kubernetes help in making your app/service portable. Or having common APIs like between s3 and google cloud storage.

Twice the persistence means always having at least one backup and thus the occurance of downtime reduces not up

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by w8rbt on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:37PM (#13760168)
With containers, I think the devops overhead would be minimal.
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by tejasmanohar on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @10:14PM (#13760691)
That's if _everything_ is in containers. Also, don't undermine how much of a difference the host machine configuration can make... Docker uses its kernel.