Yep, they wrote about this on their tech blog: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011

Yep, they wrote about this on their tech blog: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-.... It seems that they identified EBS as potentially problematic and built their system with minimal dependencies on EBS. Consequently they weathered the April AWS outage rather well.