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rwolf on Aug 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

If they sent you an email every time there was downtime, then you would know every time there was downtime. Any time your servers are not available but you don't notice == win.

bambax on Aug 7, 2011 [–]

> Any time your servers are not available but you don't notice

Can't happen. My servers are monitored by external services that (to the best of my knowledge) don't use AWS.

It's best to play the open card in any case.

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