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shuw on Oct 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix: Post-mortem of 22 Oct AWS degradation

If this practice was widely adopted, I wonder if AWS would experience a bank run/DOS in the affected and neighboring zones.

jedberg on Oct 29, 2012 | [–]

It would certainly make reservations a lot more important.

Terretta on Oct 30, 2012 | [–]

You don't have to wonder. Every single AZ AWS postmortem says that's exactly what happens.

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