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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by URSpider94 on Saturday June 30, 2012 @02:26AM (#4180912)
Exactly. Anyone running their own data center would be subject to exactly this kind of outage, and wouldn't have access to the many, many resources that cloud providers make available to ensure successful fail-over.
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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by TuanaRegis on Saturday June 30, 2012 @06:30AM (#4181295)
Yes, I can see the "many, many resources" Amazon is making available to you in this situation. Did they send you a rubber ball that you can squeeze while waiting for your servers to come back up?
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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by cbr on Saturday June 30, 2012 @03:46PM (#4182626)
They said fail-over. Those "many, many resources" are other regions and zones.
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