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bradgessler
36 days ago
What happens when the backup breaks?
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oldmanrahul
36 days ago
At a certain point earth is a single point of failure.
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noir_lord
36 days ago
You have a back up for the back up backup.
Turtles all the way down.
At AWS scale even unlikely hardware events become more common I guess.
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odyssey7
36 days ago
Each turtle gives them another 9. How many 9s are they down due to incidents over the past year?
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tardedmeme
36 days ago
They're definitely more than half a day now, which is only two and a half nines.
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