[lindvall]

I strongly believe one of the most positive aspects of EC2 was that it demonstrated a beautiful philosophy that a node and their disks should not be relied upon to always be around and pushed it into the mainstream.

Even for people who didn't use EC2 the existence of the platform caused more people to rethink their architectures to try to rely less on Important Nodes.

EBS is a step back from that philosophy and it's a point worth noting.

One of the great things this post does is enumerates some of the underlying reasons why relying on EBS will inevitably lead to more failures and in ways that are harder and harder to diagnose.

[leoc]

> EBS is a step back from that philosophy and it's a point worth noting.

Amazon doesn't use EBS itself, right? Isn't EBS something that AWS allowed its customers to nag it into against (what it considers) its better judgement?

[lindvall]

Yep. And this may be one of those cases where they would have been better off ignoring their customer requests for the good of their reputation and their customers uptime.