I care about my data too. I think it is NOT acceptable that Amazon was down last week and all of the services were also down - they should have a backup plan.

I care about my data too. I think it is NOT acceptable that Amazon was down last week and all of the services were also down - they should have a backup plan. This is why I LOVE NoSQL - it promises to disrupt databases by allowing easy replication and sharding. It exposes the fact that CAP is for ALL databases and you can make the choice if you want Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance