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One data point: On AWS, a hardware outage takes your machine down (with notification). GCE offers live migration, which you generally don't even know has happened. See http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/googl...



Note: GCE live migration take place only when there is a "scheduled maintenance", it is not designed for immediate hardware failure, so it is not a silver bullet and should not rely on them for your service's availability.


You should be building your AWS infrastructure around failure scenarios, and while you should be notified of a failure, your app should continue to chug along.

/DevOps


Isn't he just saying that Google does this automatically for you?




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