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tzury on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cascading errors caused AWS to go down

Seems like deploying on two _physical_ regions (or more) is the best and only proven approach.

That could be within the global AWS, or even say, one cluster at AWS and the other at RackSpace/Linode, etc.

robryan on June 18, 2012 [–]

Then you just need to worry about your application consistency with the replication lag. No silver bullet I guess.

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