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...and only Amazon can afford to follow their own advice. Multiple AZ hosting ain't cheap. Most CEO/CIO/CTO types spit out their coffee when they see the costs
by snorkel 15y ago
...and only Amazon can afford to follow their own advice. Multiple AZ hosting ain't cheap. Most CEO/CIO/CTO types spit out their coffee when they see the costs of fully redundant hosting in the cloud at which point they decide "For that price we can afford to be down for 24 hours."
- spydum 15y agoVery few businesses need 100% uptime. As long as you have good recovery strategies, and exercise them routinely, you should be set. When was the last time you ran a failover simulation? do your ops guys know what to do? are there clear lines of communication as to the status of the event? Outages are hard to avoid, but the pain can be lessened if your customers are aware of the recovery progress and you can deliver on your recovery time goals. Nothing is worse than being down, and leaving customers in the dark to start rumors that your guys are not even aware of the problem.