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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by crb on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:07AM (#8047010)
One data point: On AWS, a hardware outage takes your machine down (with notification). GCE offers live migration, which you generally don't even know has happened. See http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/googl...
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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by tszming on Friday July 18, 2014 @01:52AM (#8051864)
Note: GCE live migration take place only when there is a "scheduled maintenance", it is not designed for immediate hardware failure, so it is not a silver bullet and should not rely on them for your service's availability.
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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:59PM (#8048697)
You should be building your AWS infrastructure around failure scenarios, and while you should be notified of a failure, your app should continue to chug along.

/DevOps

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Re:Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Bus... by crazypyro on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:11PM (#8048791)
Isn't he just saying that Google does this automatically for you?
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