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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by brianwawok on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:26AM (#26851839)
This is neat and something I really like about GCP. Surprised AWS hasn’t been able to replicate this yet.

Yes your code should handle an instance dying. But if 98% of the time you can live migrate and not... hey why not.

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Re:Hardware Failure on EC2 by bradknowles on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:32PM (#26898428)
VMware can handle live migration. I know, I worked there for a while and that was one of the key things we sold as our stuff being better than “the cloud”.

AWS has had a partnership with VMware for a while now, so I would imagine/hope that they could still do live migration, even when running in the AWS cloud.

That does make me wonder why AWS doesn’t implement the same functionality native, though.....

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