http://www.itwriting.com/blog/732-amazon-s3-was-not-built-on-spare-capacity.html Tech writing blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/732-amazon-s3-was-not-built-on-spare-capacity.html/comment-page-1#comment-104280 Craig Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:20:22 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/732-amazon-s3-was-not-built-on-spare-capacity.html#comment-104280 I notice that during the whole S3 outage there was no mention that Amazon was down as well. This leads me to believe that Amazon is not even using their own service themselves (dog fooding). I think when they start using it themselves the reliability will go up a few fold, after all, if Amazon goes down for a few hours they stand to lose a lot of money (and creditability). I notice that during the whole S3 outage there was no mention that Amazon was down as well. This leads me to believe that Amazon is not even using their own service themselves (dog fooding). I think when they start using it themselves the reliability will go up a few fold, after all, if Amazon goes down for a few hours they stand to lose a lot of money (and creditability).

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