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I believe he meant things like using RabbitMQ instead of SQS (SQS isn't very good anyway IMHO) and things like that. More services running on plain old instances rather than AWS specific APIs, Azure specific APIs, etc.

This prevents you from getting too locked in and losing control over your application.

I honestly can't believe that Netflix can't even load their home page without DynamoDB and all this other stuff.

Edit: Looks like Netflix is back online (10:53AM EST)

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Yes, exactly. It's tempting to drink the Kool-Aid on the various services but the more you rely on them, the less flexible you become and more open to overall service failures like this one. You can take advantage of the benefits of EC2 without relying on the other services.

I mean, if even Netflix can't stay up during this, what hope does a startup have?

Netflix -IS- up, and working fine. Pretty amazing, imho.

http://downrightnow.com/netflix

https://imgur.com/NNYLUZK

There is only Zuul?

Can you hint at what this means, for the uninitiated?

I think he was making a reference to ghostbusters: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-is-no-dana-only-zuul

Ok, lmgtfy. https://github.com/Netflix/zuul

Pocket just came back up also. Issue might be resolved?

I was watching Netflix this morning and a number of titles had troubles loading repeatedly. They did eventually work though.

This is silly. Do you think you and your staff will maintain your homebrew RabbitMQ installation with better uptime than Amazon's team? And how much time/expense/manpower are you willing to devote to setting it up and monitoring it? And is that going to make your startup more successful than if you spent those resources developing the features your customers are asking for?

Yes, competent people with good planning can easyly do a lot better than that.

We do serious hosting for government and company and if we had a outage like amazon had yesterday, we would loose at least half of our clients and pay heavy cash penality.

I don't understand why people give so much a break to amazon. They have one of the worst uptime.

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