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You raise an important concern, but I wonder if the analogy is the right one. For a lot of startups/businesses, a period of downtime (in hours, not days) is not
by sabat 19y ago
You raise an important concern, but I wonder if the analogy is the right one. For a lot of startups/businesses, a period of downtime (in hours, not days) is not death. It might suck, but you won't die. In the late '90s, Ebay was down for three days straight (!) and it's still doing OK.
I will be surprised if Amazon doesn't work out the reliability issues anyway, given the massive resources and smart people it has available to it.
- davidw 19y agoA bit of downtime is certainly not a catastrophe, but it might turn into one if you lose a bunch of data because you weren't properly shipping it elsewhere.
- pchristensen 19y agoA much more sane response to the overwrought fears of EC2 downtime. If you don't know your hourly/daily income rate (often $0), then you can't even correctly value uptime.
- jeremiah 19y agoThats just it. Downtime is expensive if you rely on your web site to make you money. If you are a small eCommerce shop with all your eggs in the EC2 basket, downtime can be expensive.