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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by kalleboo on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:39AM (#14909202)
How about whatever is running on AWS GovCloud?

Water outages happen often enough - they distribute water manually with tanker trucks. When sewage is overwhelmed it overflows into a river and they tell people to not go for a swim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_sewer_overflow

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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by sargun on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:21PM (#14913730)
GovCloud has stuff that would be bad if it goes down, but most institutions that use it have a DR plan.
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