Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by petre 1023 days ago
The electricity switch.
1 comments

Implying a national payments system wouldn't be distributed across multiple AZs...?
So what do yo do when the AZ you are in is down? You use cash. Remember what happened in Hawaii this summer? Don't take anything for granted. It mostly works but what do you do when it doesn't?
When your closest AZ is down, it failovers to the next closest AZ. That's what AZs are for, there is no single "electricity switch" that could get hit by a tornado.