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Amazon’s data center outage reads like a thriller

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Written by Phil on January 27, 2010 in Disaster Recovery.

When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power one Wednesday in early December, the company wrote about the unfolding event with the brevity and tension of one its bestselling pot boilers.

Continue reading Amazon’s data center outage reads like a thriller

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