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Amazon EC2 Crash Caused Data Loss

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-was-off-site-backup! dept.

Relayman writes "Henry Blodget is reporting that the recent EC2 crash caused permanent data loss. Apparently, the backups that were being made were not sufficient to recover the lost data. Although a small percentage of the total data was lost, any data loss can be bad to a Website operator."

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  1. Re:I am not rightly able to comprehend... by teh+kurisu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That depends. Only a couple of our servers in that availability zone were actually affected, but we're apparently being compensated as though all of them were. Bonus for us.