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noir_lord 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

You have a back up for the back up backup.

Turtles all the way down.

At AWS scale even unlikely hardware events become more common I guess.

odyssey7 4 months ago [–]

Each turtle gives them another 9. How many 9s are they down due to incidents over the past year?

tardedmeme 4 months ago | [–]

They're definitely more than half a day now, which is only two and a half nines.

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