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Re:Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing yo... by kakwa_ on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:48AM (#18056283)
I was also looking at i3 instances. But the fact that storage is not persistent kind of puts me off.

How do you manage this?

Also, how frequently do i3 instances fail?

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Re:Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing yo... by malisper on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:41PM (#18060192)
We store two copies of every piece of data on two different machines. When a single machine goes down, we have code for spinning up a new machine and restoring the data that was on the machine.

Over the course of a month, we usually have about one machine fail.

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Re:Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing yo... by sre-devops on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:08PM (#18079769)
why not replication?
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