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> Does your server at home handle similar traffic to that of US-East-1 since you're comparing uptime?

Of course it doesn't. Why are you asking antagonistic questions?

He asked it to demonstrate the point that uptime is trivial for one server with no traffic, and much harder at scale with auto scaling.

Then don't host with so many people?

I don't think people care that AWS has other customers, they want their workload to work, if it doesn't: then that's a today issue.

I'm not sure your reply makes sense, seems like a non-sequiter. Individual companies might require thousands of servers and not want then running all the time. This means they either maintain thousands of servers on premises, or they use aws and auto scale. This has nothing to do with aws having other customers, and everything to do with only wanting to pay for and maintain as little as possible while being able to serve your applications.

> Honestly my server at home has more uptime than US-East-1

Is this not antagonistic? It's pointless to make these statements, so your parent comment pointed it out. Go downvote the first one instead.

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