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Did they move to AWS to ensure that their services go down more efficiently next time there's a hint of a natural disaster?

• zwily 14y ago
  You do know that AWS did not go down during Sandy, right? /me knocks on wood
  • Xylakant 14y ago
    Well, but it's not like AWS didn't have its share of downtime in the last couple of weeks. Back then the recommendation of the arm-chair-admins was to move to dedicated hardware you own. Oh the irony.
    • pyre 14y ago
      Not necessarily. If they only have their setup in a single AWS datacenter, and it gets hit by a hurricane, then you still have issues. The real issue is geographic redundancy, regardless of using AWS or dedicated hardware.
      • Xylakant 14y ago
        With the last round of failures some of the people affected reported that they couldn't start up instances in other datacenters since those were overloaded. Still, I agree - the underlying problem is cross-datacenter redundancy but that's a very difficult problem to tackle and might just not be economically feasible.