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EC2 is built for scalability and distributed systems. The article seems to give a negative spin on something which is the authors own fault. In most traditional hosting environments you have e.g. one web server. If this one server goes down your website stops working. A solution would be to have two web servers behind a load balancer. If one web server goes down, the other takes over and your site continues to work.…
With EC2 you have to ability to set up a website that never goes down. I find it hard to believe that you have any practical experience to back your claim. Today's incident affected sites that scrupulously respected all HA best practice.
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