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Re:Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST) by atlasom on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:22AM (#4114969)
Can we get this title renamed to AWS outage as the problem is not Heroku.
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Re:Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST) by biot on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:39AM (#4115029)
It may be an AWS outage as the cause, but ultimately it's Heroku's problem. They're the ones touting:

  "Erosion-resistant architecture.

   Heroku takes full responsibility for your app's health,
   keeping it up and running through thick and thin..."
The thick happened today, something eroded, and people are holding them to their word: full responsibility for their app's health. Heroku could do load balancing between multiple independent providers rather than be solely dependent on [one region of?] AWS.
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