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Re:Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage by macros on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @04:11AM (#2863341)
Why move off, why not just replicate your service to another provider as well?
Re:Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage by alexsolo on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:08PM (#2864522)
There's a good reason for that: when AWS has problems, we are under very heavy load because many of our customers are on AWS. The last thing we want to do at that point is an emergency flip to a secondary provider.