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How To Hedge Against Amazon Web Services RDS Outages

Today, one of Amazon’s data centers experienced an issue that took down some of the largest sites on the internet such as Redit, pinterest, and others. If you’re familiar with Amazon Web Services, then you know that it is supposed to have enough redundancy at Amazon’s data centers to protect against such an issue. Still many sites found themselves down for eight hours or longer.

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