Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy?

Posted by steilpass on Monday August 15, 2011 @07:51AM
from the ask-hn dept.

The latest AWS outages made it apparent that we need some backup strategy for AWS services. So how is your AWS backup strategy? Do you maintain a different stack on a different hoster? Is there a way to boot Amazon Machine Images somewhere else?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy? by schmrz on Monday August 15, 2011 @08:36AM (#2886558)

Generally you should always make sure to have backup plans but sometimes it's not worth it. Do you really need to maintain a backup strategy which requires a lot of resources for less than 12 hours of downtime per year ?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy? by couriernew on Monday August 15, 2011 @08:42AM (#2886573)

Perhaps there is a strategy that doesn't require a lot of resources. If there is, I'd be interested to hear about it. Something akin to whipping up a linode box with a pre-made script.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy? by steilpass on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:21PM (#2888761)

+1 Too bad this didn't made it to the front page.

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