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Re:Trello has moved to AWS by Xylakant on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @05:56AM (#4722014)
Well, but it's not like AWS didn't have its share of downtime in the last couple of weeks. Back then the recommendation of the arm-chair-admins was to move to dedicated hardware you own. Oh the irony.
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Re:Trello has moved to AWS by pyre on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @11:18AM (#4723192)
Not necessarily. If they only have their setup in a single AWS datacenter, and it gets hit by a hurricane, then you still have issues.

The real issue is geographic redundancy, regardless of using AWS or dedicated hardware.

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Re:Trello has moved to AWS by Xylakant on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @12:44PM (#4723728)
With the last round of failures some of the people affected reported that they couldn't start up instances in other datacenters since those were overloaded. Still, I agree - the underlying problem is cross-datacenter redundancy but that's a very difficult problem to tackle and might just not be economically feasible.
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