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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by mootothemax on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:03AM (#2470145)
What do you do when a building contractor cuts through your datacentre's link? For example, this happened in London a while back.

My point is: things go wrong. Blaming this on the cloud is silly.

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by elliottcarlson on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:35AM (#2470750)
It happened to ServInt back in 2004 - the VA Department of Transportation cut the MCI OC-48 and OC-12 fiber strands running to the ServInt datacenter. ServInt handled it amazingly well and learned from their lessons moving forward and if I recall correctly gave a comp'd month to it's customers. They followed up by adding additional backbones in addition to the MCI one and have always been solid since.
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