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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by tomjen3 on Saturday June 30, 2012 @05:24AM (#4181193)
Actually it shows the inability to rely on amazon. A storm causes a complete disaster? Where is the redundant connections? The independent power supply? Heck where is the storm drains?
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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by sandfox on Saturday June 30, 2012 @07:34AM (#4181379)
Thats sort of what some large storms can do - esp when they come with a large amount of electrical activity in them. You can easily suffer all kinds damage to power system that generators can't deal with.
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Re:Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinter... by brown9-2 on Saturday June 30, 2012 @02:10PM (#4182349)
That's exactly why they offer multiple zones. You can't make a single zone of anything 100% fault-tolerant.
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