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Comment: Re:What the story really means (Score 1) 97

by burne (#36323724) Attached to: UK Government Ditches Cloud Concept, Consolidates Data Centers

I thought that Amazon would be more reliable than even a system that I was maintaining myself, until that outage.

You've missed one detail. Amazon delivers the 'tools' (calling it hardware seems somehow wrong) to build a resiliant and scalable application. But it's up to you to build that system. And most people/companies get it wrong.

Netflix is using Amazon as well. Much of their normal operations take place in the datacenter which suffered first and most. Netflix was mostly unaffected by the outage. (http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html)

Comment: Re:Information like this shouldn't be banned... (Score 1) 154

by burne (#36129204) Attached to: Judge Issues Gag Order For Twitter

A better approach would be to ignore or scorn those who would post such personal information about something that is purely a painful family issue.

I'd guess you've never had to deal with the British press. I'd like to use the occasion to offer you earplugs, a ball-gag, a large amount of your favourite lube and copious amounts of a benzodiazepine-derivative. Might give you a fighting chance to survive the ordeal.

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