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Re:Joyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will fla... by mwcampbell on Saturday January 11, 2014 @07:41PM (#7044572)
I'm surprised to see Hoffman praising AWS when I remember how he and his former colleagues at Joyent responded to one of the big cascading EBS failures.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons...

But then, opinions change over time.

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Re:Joyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will fla... by prodigal_erik on Saturday January 11, 2014 @09:53PM (#7044945)
That was in 2011, before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669 where he decided it was okay for a service to fail to meet its commitments.

And I don't think EBS ever had an outage as severe as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269329

Disclaimer: everything I know about Hoffman and Joyent I read here. I've never done business with them; I'm pretty sure I should be glad about that.

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Re:Joyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will fla... by insaneirish on Saturday January 11, 2014 @10:35PM (#7045046)
Saying something is going to win is different than praising it.
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Re:Joyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will fla... by ronnier on Saturday January 11, 2014 @08:47PM (#7044762)
So has EBS :)
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