While it's certainly unfortunate for companies that have bet on EC2, they'd
be smarter to distribute their servers a bit so that a single data center
outage does not take out their entire company.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but for all those folks
> doubting the viability of appengine for reliability reasons:
>
>
> http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-goes-down-taking-with-it-reddit-foursquare-and-quora/
>
> Amazon's North Virginia datacenter tripped and fell over in the early
> AM this morning, and several major sites (Foursquare and Quora) are
> still down more than *eight hours* later.  Ouch.
>
> You can read the gory details here:  http://status.aws.amazon.com/
>
> Jeff
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