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		speedgoose on Dec 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern V... It's true, but you can do load balancing at the DNS level.

darkwater on Dec 11, 2021 [–]

And you will get 1/N of requests timing or erroring out, and in the meanwhile paying 2x or 3x the costs. So, it might be worth in some cases but you need to evaluate it very, very well.

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