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And now reddit is down again (posting/submitting is impossible). Probably yet another Amazon issue, yet again.

In all fairness I've read that the reddit devs have made lots of boneheaded mistakes in their general infrastructure-design, but it still seems Amazon is not a very reliable platform to build your stuff on. Platforms built on top of Amazon's even less so.

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I think boneheaded is a strong word. They're solving a problem that very few sites have to solve (huge traffic with low cache-ability) with vastly less resources than the others who do solve them have. (FB, Twitter, etc).

AMZN in general is a pretty solid 'platform' (especially if you're not using EBS), but because this whole 'cloud' thing is still partially uncharted territory, there are still holes, and you can't treat it like a normal web host.

Are you seriously not aware that reddit falls over pretty much all the time on its own?

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