Top Reasons Amazon EC2 Instances Disappear
The fact that Amazon says up-front that computers fail seems to be the number one concern and criticism of EC2, especially from people who have not used it extensively. I don’t actually spend much time thinking about that because in our experience it’s not something to worry about. It’s essential to take into account when designing a system; whenever we set something up on a machine we immediately think “and what do we do …