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Also, when they mention "high availability", does that mean it's fast? Or that it doesn't go down? They do mention that from ec2 instances, the speed is "near-L

Also, when they mention "high availability", does that mean it's fast? Or that it doesn't go down? They do mention that from ec2 instances, the speed is "near-LAN", whatever that means in practice.

semanticist 16y ago
'High availability' means that it doesn't go down - or at least is much less likely to than a non-HA system. It's not really to do with being 'fast' per se, although sufficiently slow response times are indistinguishable from downtime.