Article :: Four Rules for Surviving an Amazon EC2 Outage

The recent outage of one of Amazon&rsquo;s availability zones has some technologists claiming the cloud isn&rsquo;t product ready. The reality is that it isn&rsquo;t a problem with the cloud&mdash;it&rsquo;s a problem with the architecture of the sites hosted on the cloud. Michael T. Fisher and Martin L. Abbott, co-authors of <a Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites</a>, cover four simple rules that, if followed, will help your site maintain high availability no matter where it is hosted.

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