[mwcampbell]

I'm surprised to see Hoffman praising AWS when I remember how he and his former colleagues at Joyent responded to one of the big cascading EBS failures.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons...

But then, opinions change over time.

[prodigal_erik]

That was in 2011, before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669 where he decided it was okay for a service to fail to meet its commitments.

And I don't think EBS ever had an outage as severe as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269329

Disclaimer: everything I know about Hoffman and Joyent I read here. I've never done business with them; I'm pretty sure I should be glad about that.

[insaneirish]

Saying something is going to win is different than praising it.

[ronnier]

So has EBS :)