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A comment on Steve's Google Platform rant. Parent comment

Re:Steve's Google Platform rant by nirvana on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @06:53AM (#3102405)
So, about 4 years after it was publicly claimed to be running on AWS.
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Re:Steve's Google Platform rant by nikcub on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @10:45AM (#3103121)
yes but we all figured this out earlier because EC2 and S3 downtime would never correspond with Amazon.com downtime - which made it obvious that the 'use the infrastructure we use' line was complete bullshit.
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Re:Steve's Google Platform rant by ceejayoz on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @03:30PM (#3104156)
Not necessarily. Netflix managed to survive EC2 and S3 downtimes by architecting around the (mostly known) pitfalls - multiple regions, S3 isn't HA, etc.
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