DinkyG

I'm curious what the reasoning was behind approving a measure which had such a high risk of backfiring very badly for vw. Is it something which was approved higher up or something an engineering team quietly hacked into place to meet an emissions target.

This. There is also a pretty wide variation in skill levels between different doctors. With only one arbitrarily selected opinion the chances of getting advice from the wrong end of the spectrum is higher.

There's no shortage of conspiratorial comments and posts about Russia and China on HN either. There's something about conspiracies which captures our imagination but there needs to at least be some basis in the facts.

Sounds pretty circumstantial. Adobe for example has had many security vulnerabilities in flash over the years. I doubt that they were intentional back doors.

"No one data center serves two availability zones" :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/16/aws_data_centre_arch...

The docs you quoted specifically call out "multiple facilities".

Multiple facilities != "one datacenter"

This is incorrect. If you look for news articles about Amazon constructing data centers or buying facilities you'll notice that they have multiple data center facilities in each region.

The article answers the question with a no... I presume you didn't read it.

DynamoDb never promised 10 nines of availability, so it's a bit silly to hold them to that.

That's why parent post mentioned multiple regions. No other AWS region was affected...

Just finished uninstalling AVG...

DynamoDb was only down in only one region, for the first time in years. It's hardly a reason to migrate off, especially with DynamoDb still being available in every single other region throughout. It's simpler to fail over to another AWS region than to an entirely different cloud provider with a different API.