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Simple Solution for Amazon’s Web Services Reliability

This past Friday a major 2 1/2 hour outage of Amazon web services hit the Internet. The blogs were abuzz with the gory details but the resounding scheme has been that it is not reliable enough yet. Being an Amazon AWS user as well as many others who visit their forums, it is a well known fact that Amazon’s web services experience issues on a frequent basis (although not as bad as Friday). This is why for example, my own projects that use Amazon’s web services do so on a asynchronous basis.

In my personal opinion, there is a very simple solution to make their services very reliable and to make people trust them. Just host all of Amazon.com’s images on the web services. Being that Amazon as whole makes billions from their sites versus a paltry 130 million from the web services, that would force their web services team to provide high reliability as well as restore trust in the service.

Just my own two cents.

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