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Just because failure can happen doesn't mean it's frequent. For the record AWS does this to protect against correlated failure. At their scale, they assume they have some percentage of local nodes down at any given time, so have designed the system to tolerate both network partitions and local failure at the same time.

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They did it for stable performance, because failures are in fact frequent. Things are much worse once you go out into the public internet, where different hosting providers communicate over all kinds of networks with all kinds of issues.

FaunaDB can tolerate the loss or partition of a minority of replicas (datacenters, AZs, or racks) in a cluster, so if you want to tolerate more concurrent failures, just add more replicas.

For example, a 7 replica FaunaDB cluster can lose 3 replicas and maintain availability for reads and writes; better than Aurora in your example.

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