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toomuchtodo on Oct 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddi...

We run gear in multiple physical locations, but both the application and data is stored/backed in S3. This allows us the redundancy of S3 without the cost and fragile nature of EC2.

strlen on Oct 23, 2012 [–]

Indeed, there are many ways to complement physical colocation with AWS.

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