Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned

Re:Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned by ssmoot on Monday April 25, 2011 @02:42PM (#2482382)

I think you'd be surprised at how much better/cheaper you could have done it in house.

Given proper motivation (say 20c bonus on every dollar saved) I think we'd see this argument vanish pretty quickly.

If you listen to the wrong people (sales-guys from "Enterprise Grade" vendors), or pinch too many pennies it can easily be a disaster. It's dangerous water to tread on your own for sure.

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Re:Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned by alecco on Monday April 25, 2011 @06:17PM (#2483154)

Beware of wrong incentives. This is exactly how people are tempted to improve the average case with a trade-off with the worst case. Dollars saved in the short term can cause catastrophic problems later.

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