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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:42AM (#2470559)
> I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions?

In theory, yes. In practice, those snapshots hurt the volume so much that it is impossible to take one in production.

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by chrislomax on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:08AM (#2470651)
Interesting, your insight has given me a lot to think about.

Do you guys blog this anywhere?

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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by jedberg on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:37AM (#2471012)
Yeah, usually they are on our blog right after the downtime, or in /r/announcements on reddit.
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