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by enraged_camel
3394 days ago
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>>Sites went offline for days if not weeks because of hardware failure -- some never came back because they didn't back up correctly. S3 went offline for five hours, but didn't lose a single bit of data. S3 going offline for five hours probably caused orders of magnitude more damage. The reason is simple: the stakes are higher today than they were 20 years ago. Back then the overwhelming majority of the business in most companies was conducted on paper and in person. Losing a website for a few days, or even a few weeks, wasn't a big deal. Today though? There are so many companies that host business-critical operations and infrastructure in the cloud that it's hard to fathom how they are coping with being taken offline for several hours in the middle of the week. |
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