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I have a feeling (and I really really hope) this is a joke because of that sentence.

• aheilbut 15y ago
  An event monitor isn't a life-critical system. Perhaps it messes up a study, and ticks off some cardiologists, but it's not as if somebody's implantable defibrillator is depending on EC2 being online.
• pstack 15y ago
  I tend to suspect this entire thing, but as I've been working with enterprise teams across the board for over a decade from universities to companies that specialize in space exploration and governments and hospitals, I have discovered that there is sometimes a distinct lack of common sense and that often people with little or no skill end up in positions where they can make drastic decisions. I just have to believe that in this case, were it real, someone would have stopped the plan to be cloud-only before it reached that point. If this is real, it's almost sickening on two levels. The first and most obvious is the risk the company exposed clients to in their deployment. Second, the lack of communication to paying customers from Amazon. I'm a fan of Amazon and probably spend more money there than at any other company on the planet and am disappointed whenever I see a business that puts up a giant wall between their paying customers and the support they need. On the other hand, that comment leads us to a great idea for a startup: Social ECG Monitoring with a dash of Gamification. I even got all the flashy keywords in there!