True, and learning on a monday morning is certainly easier than learning during peak hours for some of these companies. It does lead one to reexamine the value

True, and learning on a monday morning is certainly easier than learning during peak hours for some of these companies. It does lead one to reexamine the value of another 9, however. Out of curiosity, does it often cost triple to shift half of the instances/LB's/etc... to another datacenter and implement the proper consistency mechanisms?