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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by speedgoose on Saturday December 11, 2021 @12:52AM (#29518815)
It's true, but you can do load balancing at the DNS level.
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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by darkwater on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:36AM (#29519709)
And you will get 1/N of requests timing or erroring out, and in the meanwhile paying 2x or 3x the costs. So, it might be worth in some cases but you need to evaluate it very, very well.
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