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Here is the dirty little secret: most business run fine without high availibility. Your customer will not leave if your service is crashing for a few hours duri

Here is the dirty little secret: most business run fine without high availibility. Your customer will not leave if your service is crashing for a few hours during the year if you are small.

sbov 9y ago
On top of that, Amazon's single region EC2 SLA kicks in at 99.95%. So unless you are using multiple regions in AWS, going by their SLA you're already in the range of a few hours of downtime per year.