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Thankfully, they didn't lose/delete existing data during that outage.

Agree, there was no data loss, but those who relied on US-Standard solely with no bit replication were dead in the water for the duration of the outage.

Sure, but that shows up in the risk calculations when you're choosing a cloud provider. I imagine for just about everyone it was cheaper to eat the loss on the day of the outage than to spend the time/effort/resources to do it right. Especially when it made national news that it was Amazon's fault so nobody blamed the sites that were down.

> Especially when it made national news that it was Amazon's fault so nobody blamed the sites that were down.

That's an interesting viewpoint. I really don't agree with it though. When your service is down that is your responsibility, never Amazon's. And when you lose data that is your responsibility too, not your cloud provider's.

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