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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:10AM (#36893813)
I'm only wildly guessing here, but most likely the "cloud storage" backing all those managed databases is actually S3-like blob storage under the hood.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by zetalyrae on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:14AM (#36893893)
The database engine implements ACID and crash recovery so you don't have to. This is precisely what failed in this outage.
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