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

using aws since s3 came out and i’ve yet to see any major company do multi az failover in any capacity whatsoever. default region ftw

jedberg 4 months ago | [–]

We were doing multi-AZ and multi-region failover at Netflix all the way back in 2011:

https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba...

sitzkrieg 3 months ago | | [–]

fair point. credit where it is due not a user but my understanding is netflix never went down w us-east-1 :-)

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