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Dan 10

Re: If only there was a way

From AWS Cloud Best Practices:

"Be a pessimist when designing architectures in the cloud; assume things will fail. In other words, always design, implement and deploy for automated recovery from failure. In particular, assume that your hardware will fail. Assume that outages will occur. "

Customers aren't paying for an infrastructure that does not fail - they are paying for things like elasticity, parallelism, and the transfer of capex to opex.

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