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Amazon: We Promise Our EC2 Cloud Will Only Crash Once A Week (alleyinsider.com)
1 point by ekrangel on Oct 23, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


are downtime and crash really synonymous though? seems like an awfully sensationalistic piece. they're not saying it's GOING to die once a week, but you can hardly tell from reading AlleyInsider's version of it. an SLA on an innovative new system, be happy you got any guarantee at all.

especially if you consider a crash extending longer than 5 minutes it breaks the SLA...




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