He's saying that you don't need Partition Tolerance because network is never actually Partitioned. This is exactly why the Internet and the US Interstate Highw

He's saying that you don't need Partition Tolerance because network is never actually Partitioned. This is exactly why the Internet and the US Interstate Highway system were invented in the first place. Or he's saying you don't need Consistency because your system isn't actually distributed; it's just a centralized system with hot backups. It's unclear what he's trying to say. No idea why he wrote the blog post. It doesn't increase my confidence in the engineering equality of his employer AWS