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by hubertzhang 237 days ago
My reflections on the AWS us-east-1 outage.

Yesterday I posted a Show HN introducing our MongoDB-compatible database EloqDoc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45634638 ). Today’s AWS us-east-1 outage was a strong reminder of why relying on local NVMe as primary database storage is risky—and why OLTP databases should consider object storage as the durable foundation instead.