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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by toomuchtodo on Monday October 22, 2012 @10:08PM (#4686445)
We run gear in multiple physical locations, but both the application and data is stored/backed in S3. This allows us the redundancy of S3 without the cost and fragile nature of EC2.
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Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others by strlen on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:40PM (#4690920)
Indeed, there are many ways to complement physical colocation with AWS.
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